Gibbs v. State

For some time prior to and on the 15th day of May, A. D. 1933, claimant was acting as assistant in chemistry in the Department of Chemistry in the University of Illinois, pursuant to employment by the Board of Trustees of such University. On the date last mentioned, about nine o’clock p. m., while assembling laboratory apparatus and attaching a rubber tube to a glass arm of a distilling flask in connection with the performing of an experiment with chemicals of various kinds, the glass tube broke and one of the fragments cut the little finger of claimant’s left hand, severing a tendon, which…