Baaken v. Naufft & Bergstrom

Certiorari to review a decision of the industrial commission denying relator compensation for accidental injuries.

In 1927, when relator lost his hand, he was in the employ of Naufft & Bergstrom, contractors who were erecting a hospital for a railroad at Proctor, Minnesota. The circumstances of his injury were these:

*273On July 4 of that year the American Legion post of the village staged a fireworks display, and in the forenoon some men arrived to put it up near the hospital. They applied to relator, who had been directed by his employers to' go to the hospital and wet down or sprinkle the cement…