Garrett v. Garrett & Garrett Farms

MARTIN (Harry C.), Judge.

Plaintiff assigns as error the dismissal of the claim for lack of jurisdiction. At the outset, we note that Farm Bureau does not contest that plaintiff was injured by an accident arising out of and in the course of employment. The Commission so found in its finding of fact 7, and Farm Bureau did not except or object. Likewise we note that plaintiff’s work was farming, ordinarily exempt from the requirements of the Workmen’s Compensation Act. “[A]n employer of . . . farm laborers . . . who has purchased workmen’s compensation insurance to cover his compensation…