Barker v. Bemidji Wood Products Co.

Certiorari on the relation of the defendant to review the order of the industrial commission awarding compensation to the plaintiff under the provisions of the compensation act. C. S. 1923 (1 Mason, 1927) § 4261, et seq.

Thomas Barker, designated as plaintiff, owned a gasolene truck. He hauled timber products, principally jack pine bolts, to the plant of the Bemidji Wood Products Company, designated defendant, from a point 28 miles south of Bemidji. He received an injury through the crushing of a finger when unloading in the defendant’s plant at Bemidji. The only question is whether he was an…