Roberts' Case

Appeal from a decree awarding compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Act.

The employee, who lost his life in the accident, was at the time employed by the Portland Rendering Company at its plant in the city of Portland.-

The only access by teams or automobiles to the nearest public street from the premises of the Rendering Company, where the deceased was employed, is over the land of the Grand Trunk Railway by a private way, which crosses tracks of the Railway about thirty feet from the land of the Rendering Company on which its plant is located.

The Chairman of the Industrial Accident…