Industrial Commission v. Nissen

The commission disallowed the claim of the defendant in error, Nissen, who is administrator of the estate of Charles Henry Nissen, deceased; the district court reversed this award and directed an award for the claimant and the commission brings error.

The deceased was employed by the Adolph J. Zang Investment Company, one of the plaintiffs in error. He .lodged in an alfalfa mill which belonged to his employer and worked on his employer’s farm, about half a mile away. He had been a watchman at the mill and claimant insists was so still, but on that point the evidence is not conclusive. He had…