Patton v. American Oil Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

WolfsKeil, J.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The bureau found for the respondent. Petitioner appealed and the Common Pleas affirmed. Petitioner then certioraried to the Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Perskie, sitting alone, who filed an opinion holding that “the judgment of the Common Pleas Court and that of the workmen’s compensation bureau is reversed. The case will be remitted to the bureau to make the specific finding which it is required to make.”

The defense before the bureau was that intoxication of the petitioner was the natural and…