Hance v. Johnson, Stephens & Shinkle Shoe Company

STONE, Judge.

In this proceeding for benefits under the Missouri Workmen’s Compensation Law [Chapter 287], Earnie Hance, self-described as a “very goosy” individual, asserted that, while drinking at a fountain in the Rolla plant of Johnson, Stephens & Shinkle Shoe Company, his employer, “I was goosed and I jumped against the drinking fountain.” (All statutory references herein are to RSMo 1949, V.A.M.S.) The referee in the first instance, and the Industrial Commission of Missouri on review, denied benefits because (in the language of the Commission) “the employee’s condition was not caused nor…