La Crosse Dredging Co. v. Industrial Commission

The power of the Industrial Commission to award compensation is questioned, and appellants’ reasons for so doing are, among others, that the work was not local in character and that the employment was maritime in nature and therefore under the admiralty jurisdiction of the United States. A number of propositions based upon the facts of this case might be advanced, any one of which could effectively overcome appellants’ objections. A controlling one is that the work was local. Falkenberg was engaged in a dredging operation to make a new way through land. This *310type of work “as well as that done…