Metzger v. Industrial Commission

The following opinion was filed April 7, 1931:

Fritz, J.

The award for compensation to be paid by plaintiffs, and which they seek to have vacated, was made to the widow of George Koefler, who was fatally injured on June 1, 1929. On that day and for about a year prior thereto, Koefler was in the employment of the plaintiff Metzger, who was engaged in business as a painting contractor, and in that business employed from three to fourteen men. Koefler’s employment was to do painting and work incidental thereto in the usual course of Metzger’s painting business. On June 1, 1929, Metzger directed…