John Deere Waterloo Tractor Works v. Derifield

This is a suit for a declaratory judgment, praying that the third paragraph of section 86.21, Code of Iowa, 1958, be interpreted as limiting the taking of depositions in workmen’s compensation proceedings to witnesses who live within one hundred miles of the place of hearing.

The facts are not in dispute. Defendant William H. Derifield, now a resident of the state of Washington, filed with the industrial commissioner of Iowa, a petition for arbitration of his claim against plaintiff, John Deere Waterloo Tractor Works, of Deere & Company, for occupational disease compensation under the…