Jones v. Yankee Hill Brick Manufacturing Co.

Plaintiff, Wesley Jones, sought in this action to recover benefits under the provisions of the workmen’s compensation law. Defendant Yankee Hill Brick Manufacturing Company was his employer and defendant Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Company of Wisconsin was his employer’s compensation insurer. After a hearing by one of the judges of the workmen’s compensation court, plaintiff’s petition was dismissed upon the ground that plaintiff had failed to meet the burden of proof required by law to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the condition of which he complained resulted…