Standard Paving Co. v. Newman

On the 20th day of January, 1941, W. H. Newman, respondent, filed his first notice of injury and claim for compensation therein stating that he sustained an accidental injury arising out of and in the course of his employment with the Standard Paving Company, hereinafter called petitioner.

The evidence discloses that the petitioner, in pursuance of a contract with the State of Oklahoma, was constructing a concrete highway from a point five miles southeast of Cleveland, Okla., to said town. At the time of respondent’s injury, approximately four miles of paving had been poured. Respondent was…