White v. Industrial Accident Commission

This is a proceeding in review to annul an award of the Industrial Accident Commission. The petitioner, H. White, was engaged in the construction of a summer home at Middletown, in Lake County, during the summer of 1921. The work was done by day labor under the supervision of a foreman, Benjamin Althof, employed by the petitioner. During the entire period of construction, Hans Johnsen, the applicant before the Industrial Accident Commission, and one of the respondents here, a former sailor and stevedore, was employed about the place as a laborer or a sort of “man of all work.” He was so…