Chicago Tribune v. Industrial Commission

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County confirming an award of the Industrial Commission to the family of one Harold Tobin, a deceased employee of the Chicago Tribune.

The decedent was 49 years of age and had worked as a pressman for 15 years. His duties were to put webbing into the press, adjust the ink flow and occasionally place a bucket of ink weighing 30 to 40 pounds on a hoist which elevated the bucket to an upper level. He then walked up 12 to 13 steps to that level and there fed the ink into the press.

On the morning of his death, he went to work at 7 :oo…