Mengel Co. v. Axley

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

The appeal is from a judgment confirming an award of the Workman’s Compensation Board. The appellant, The Mengel Company, concedes there is evidence to support the finding of an industrial accident though it maintains the claim is without merit. That view is offered as something of an apology for relying upon technical grounds of attack upon the award. We reach the opposite view of the merits and think the man has a meritorious claim.

For about twenty years the appellee, William A. Axley, had been a laborer for this company. He was also a “lay preacher” and had…