Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Co. v. Industrial Commission

On this appeal and in the circuit court the plaintiffs seek to have the court set aside an award made by the Industrial Commission for compensation for the death of William J. Edwards. Edwards died at about S o’clock in the afternoon of Saturday, October 24, 1931, as the result of swallowing carbolic acid by mistake. Evidence, which is practically undisputed, establishes the following facts: At and for some time prior to the time of his death Edwards was in the employment of the plaintiff Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Company at its logging camp, as a scaler and as the clerk in charge of a store…