Pitchforth v. MacOmb

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which Tom Macomb, one of the defendants in error, was awarded compensation for permanent disability allegedly caused by his contracting the disease of tularemia while shearing sheep for R. H. Pitchforth, employer, one of the plaintiffs in error. The award of the commission was sustained by the trial court and Pitchforth and The Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation, Limited, the insurance carrier, seek reversal on a writ of error.

Briefly stated, the facts and circumstances which gave rise to the action are as follows: In the spring of 1940,…