Pryor v. Brickley

Layton, C. J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

The second sentence of Section 6117 of the Revised Code begins thus: “In occupations involving seasonal employment or employment dependent upon the weather”.

The Industrial Accident Board held the phrase, “dependent upon the weather”, to be merely a descriptive reference to the word “seasonal”; as the employer admitted that carpentry was not a seasonal employment, and as obviously it was not “casual”, it necessarily fell into the category of employments denominated as “continuous”; and the injury, therefore, was compensable under the third…