Andrews v. State Compensation Commissioner

Hatcher, Judge:

James Andrews was refused workmen’s compensation for a fractured patella, and was granted this appeal.

Andrews was fireman for Hygrade Food Products Company in the city of Wheeling. Plis regular employment commenced daily at seven o’clock A. M., but on May 15, 1931, he came to work at a few moments before six A. M. He gives as the reason for coming so early that his foreman had instructed him to come ahead of time and help get up the steam whenever hogs were being slaughtered, and that while he had no information of hogs being slaughtered on that morning, he came in time to…