Pattee v. Fullerton Lumber Co.

— This case makes the necessity of construing certain provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act found in chapter 70 of the 1931 Code (section 1361 et seq.), and grows out of the death of W. D. Pattee, claimed to have been an employee of the Fullerton Lumber Company.

The widow of deceased filed a claim in the office of the Iowa Industrial Commissioner setting out in substance that her husband, W. D. Pattee, was employed by the lumber company at Rolfe, Iowa, and on the 5th day of March, 1934, received an injury arising out of and in the course of his employment, and resulting in his death…