Butera v. Western Ice & Utilities Co.

Opinion by

Hiet, J.,

The question raised on this appeal is whether claimant’s employment was within an exception of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, relieving the employer from liability for injury by accident within the course of the employment. Both the board and the lower court found the employment to be casual and not in the regular course of business of the employer and, accordingly, compensation was denied.

The business of defendant employer was manufacturing, storing and selling ice in Fredricktown. There was undue loss of ice in one of the storage rooms of its plant because of faulty…