Gooch v. Industrial Commission

The sole question in this case is whether the injury for which compensation is claimed arose out of the employment of the claimant, Roy D. Gooch. He is a boy eighteen years old, and at the time of his injury, June 18, 1924, was employed by defendant in error, Guy Gones, as a helper on an ice-delivery truck. While walking from the truck to a customer’s residence to inquire if ice was wanted he was struck in the left eye by a dart shot from a hammer-like device used by small boys in celebrating the Fourth of July. The accident happened just as Gooch was walking across the public sidewalk. The…