Wenzel & Henoch Construction Co. v. Industrial Commission

The facts are not in dispute. Willie Haney Alexander, applicant before the Industrial Commission, is the widow of James Alexander, who came to his death on September 19, 1928, while in the employ of Wenzel & Henoch Construction Company and while working at the bottom of an open trench being dug by said company on the east side of Lake Drive in Fox Point, Wisconsin. The trench was about sixteen feet deep and about twenty-seven inches wide. It was being excavated by a trenching machine which had a boom about thirty feet long on which was an endless belt or chain carrying digging buckets. The…