Board of Education of District No. 4 v. Industrial Commission

Harry Perks, plaintiff in error, was one of two janitors employed by the Board of Education of district No. 4, town 12, range 6, Macoupin county, Illinois, located at Virden. The district owned three school buildings. The size and description of none of them are disclosed by the record. Plaintiff in error, while cutting grass with a hand lawnmower on a school house lawn in June, 1921, received an injury to his hand, and because of an infection, which later developed, lost two fingers of his right hand. The arbitrator rendered a decision in his favor. Upon a review by the Industrial Commission…