Johnson v. Voss

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment setting aside an award of compensation to the widow of an employee of the respondents who operated a grain elevator and dealt in farm machinery at Downs.

*587While employed by respondents in building an addition to their elevator to enlarge its storage capacity the claimant’s husband fell from a scaffold and allegedly sustained injuries from which he died some four months afterwards.

At the hearing before the compensation commissioner, the chief questions at issue were whether the workman’s fall from the…