O'Connell v. New York Life Insurance

The evidence is not in dispute. Thomas O'Connell was a plumber. On July 12, 1932, he was working on the construction of a sewer in Chippewa Falls. His *63work consisted of laying the sewer pipe. The trench in which the sewer was laid was eight feet deep and approximately three feet wide. The temperature was about one hundred and ten degrees. The air was muggy and close. After some hours of. work in this ditch, O’Connell returned to the plumbing shop and shortly thereafter collapsed and fell, striking his head at the base of the skull. Within twenty-four hours he developed pneumonia from which he…