Wing v. Clark Equipment Co.

This is an appeal from an award of compensation made against the Clark Equipment Company and the carrier of its risk, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, the reasons urged in support of the appeal being hereinafter noted and considered.

The Corporations Auxiliary Company is engaged in making industrial surveys and for that purpose employs persons known as efficiency engineers, sometimes called undercover men. Such men are placed in the employment of companies who desire the services of the Corporations Auxiliary Company and are thus enabled to obtain firsthand information as to conditions in and…