Eagle River Building & Supply Co. v. Industrial Commission

This case presents the simple question whether an employee, engaged in outdoor work during extremely cold weather, who receives an injury by accidental freezing, is entitled to compensation under the workmen’s compensation act.

From an early day, under the act there has been some confusion on this and kindred questions by reason of the decision of this court in Hoenig v. Industrial Comm. 159 Wis. 646, 150 N. W. 996. That was a case where the workman was working in the open around a millpond, in the summer time, and was killed by a bolt of lightning; in other words, in the language of the law,…