City of Milwaukee v. Industrial Commission

The applicant for compensation, the widow of plaintiff’s deceased employee, contended before the Industrial Commission that the death of her husband was the result of the injury, and offered evidence tending to support such contention. The Commission, however, found to the contrary, and no contention is now being made by the widow against such conclusion.

Under the workmen’s compensation act, upon an injury happening to an employee there may arise, first, a present claim for compensation on his individual behalf which belongs to him and no one else; second, an inchoate right of action which…