Chatt v. Massman Construction Co.

This is a proceeding under the workmen’s compensation law. Comp. St. 1929, sec. 48-101.

The petition presented to the compensation court states in substance that August Doescher, an employee of Mass-man Construction Company, defendant, was engaged in the duties of his employment handling rough stones on a revetment project in course of construction by his employer on the Nebraska bank of the Missouri river in Burt county, near Tekamah, August 13, 1938; that while thus engaged employee slipped and fell into the river, injuring and bruising his right leg just below the knee; that, in wet…