Felden v. Horton & Coleman, Inc.

Claim was made for compensation as provided in the Missouri Workmen’s Compensation Law for death of Joseph L. Felden by lightning. As a defense the employer and insurer asserted that the death was due to an act of God and not to injury arising out of and in the course of his employment. The Referee and the full Commission found that the employee met his death as the result of an electrical storm, but denied compensation for the reason that his employment did not subject him to any extra hazard from said condition. Claimants appealed to the circuit court which found that “the Commission erred…