Nash-Kelvinator Corp. v. Industrial Commission

The matter here involves an assault arising out of mob violence resulting in injury to an employee of appellant and raises the question as to liability under the Workmen’.s Compensation Act.

Recovery under workmen’s compensation is not the same as recovery under the common-law doctrine of the law of master and servant. Workmen’s compensation statutes were passed “to ameliorate a social condition — not to define a situation or fix a liability by an adherence to the old common law. Liability was imposed regardless of fault — vitally different from that under the common law.” Matter of…