Holt Lumber Co. v. Industrial Commission
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county.: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from a judgment setting aside an order of the Industrial Commission awarding to appellant Sam Be-bemt $259.03 as compensation and expenses. Appellant Sam Bebeau was in the employ of the Holt Lumber Company as a sawyer at one of its camps.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county.: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from a judgment setting aside an order of the Industrial Commission awarding to appellant Sam Be-bemt $259.03 as compensation and expenses. Appellant Sam Bebeau was in the employ of the Holt Lumber Company as a sawyer at one of its camps. On the evening of March 13, 1917, while in his bunk talking to a fellow employee who was in an adjoining bunk, a straw féll' from the bunk above, lodged in his throat, causing infection, which resulted in disability for which compensation was awarded.…
1Opinion of the CourtKerwin, J.
The Industrial Commission as a basis for awarding damages to appellant Sam Bebeau found, among other things, that N
“During the winter of 1917 the applicant was in the respondent’s employ in the woods as a sawyer; he was paid $40 per month and board and lived in a camp furnished by the respondent; this camp was located several miles from any other dwelling, and all of the men employed by the respondent at this particular logging operation boarded at the respondent’s camp; the men in the camp slept in bunks arranged so that one man slept above the other.
“On the evening of March 13th, after his…
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