Larson v. Industrial Accident Commission

Four proceedings in certiorari were initiated in this court by the above petitioners—an employer and his insurance carrier—to annul awards made by the Industrial Accident Commission. The employer, Erie Larson, owns and operates a large grain ranch, some eight or ten miles from the town of Stratford, in Kings County, on which he maintained bunkhouses for the comfort and accommodation of his workmen. On the evening of February 4, 1923, at about 5:30 o’clock, a number of the employees were in one of these bunkhouses, in which a fire was burning in a wood stove used for heating the place. For the…