Claim of Roos v. Loft, Inc.

Appeal from an award in favor of claimant. On February 16, 1934, claimant, while in the course of his employment as a chemical engineer by the employer, *843which was engaged in the manufacture of candy, ate some peanut butter which contained thallium sulphate which had been prepared as a rat poison, which was in a jar on a shelf in the laboratory of the employer’s plant where claimant was working. As a result he was poisoned and sustained the injuries for which the award has been made. The appellants assert that the accident did not arise out of and in the course of his employment and that the…