Gillick v. Fruin-Colnon Construction Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court setting aside an award made by the Workmen’s Compensation Commission in favor of the employer and insurer and remanding the cause with instructions to make an award in favor of claimants. Both employer and insurer appealed.

Appellants concede that respondents offered evidence tending to show that on November 18, 1929, deceased was in the employ of Fruin-Colnon Construction Company as a bricklayer; that while in the course of his employment on a job at the Carter Carburetor Company Building in St. Louis, he stepped on a nail and sustained a…