Lamb v. Standard Oil Company

Award has been made under the 'Workmen’s Compensation law to the widow of Virgil Lamb for compensation found to be due by reason of his death. The. questions are, whether the fatal injury arose out of and in the course of the employment and whether intoxication was a proximate canse of the injury.

I. Lamb was a salesman for the Standard Oil Company, working out of the division office at Mason City. He lived in Algona with his wife, -the claimant, ’and his six-year-old son. His territory was a fifty-mile area around Algona. Mason City, Fort Dodge and Clarion were not in his territory. His…