Industrial Commission v. Davis

This is an action brought by the defendant in error, the wife and dependent of a deceased employee, whose employer, a board of education, was a contributor to the workmen’s compensation fund, for the recovery of a judgment in her favor against the Industrial Commission, which would entitle her to participate in that fund by reason of the fact, alleged by her to be true, that her husband lost his life as the result of an injury sustained by him in the course of his employment. The claim was presented to the Industrial Commission, and rejected by the commission upon the ground that the death of…