Illinois Bell Telephone Co. v. Industrial Commission

This writ of error is prosecuted by leave of court to review the judgment of the circuit court of Cook county confirming an award of the Industrial Commission in favor of defendant in error, Mary K. Mulligan.

On Saturday, October 8, 1921, defendant in error was employed by plaintiff in error as a switchboard operator at its main office in the city of Chicago and had been so employed for nearly two years. In her work she used a head-set, which held the receiver to her right ear. She testified that while she was working at her board about noon she “got an awful bang in the earthat the noise was…