Hamilton v. J. Le Roy Farmer Canning Co.

J. LeRoy Farmer owned and operated as an individual four canning factories, located at Cedar Rapids, Tip-ton, West Liberty, and Monticello, Iowa. He employed one Jesse J. Hamilton at his factory at Tipton. On the 26th day of June, 1933, while engaged in taking an inventory of can labels located in the warehouse of the factory, Hamilton slipped and fell upon a freshly scrubbed floor and as a result sustained a fracture of the right hip. He filed an application for arbitration under the workmen’s compensation act, to which application the employer filed answer, denying liability, claiming that…