Knuffke v. Bartholomew

This is a proceeding under the workmen’s compensation law.' While defendant was engaged in plastering-a panel on the outside of the Reimnuth Implement Building in Sidney, he fell from a scaffold July 9, 1920. To procure an award for resulting injuries he filed with the compensation commissioner a claim against plaintiff, the' contractor by whom the building' was being constructed. That officer found that defendant, when injured, was an employee of plaintiff and was entitled to $15 a week for a period not yet determinable. From this award plaintiff appealed to the district court and there…