Davis v. W. T. Grant Co.

Stated in its essentials, the question is whether the workmen’s compensation act applies to the ordinary employes of a store or mercantile establishment in which power driven machinery, including hoisting apparatus, is in incidental use in the conduct of its business and is in proximity to the employes’ work. Although the act has been in force for twenty-five years, the question has not heretofore arisen here. And because of the differences in the scope and provisions of the legislation on the subject here and elsewhere, authority from other jurisdictions is scanty.

Specifically, the act is…