Wilkowski v. Industrial Commission

This is a workmen’s compensation case. Plaintiff in error is hereinafter referréd to as claimant, and defendants in error as the commission, the fund and the board respectively. The facts are not in dispute.

Claimant sought compensation for an injury due to an accident arising out of and in the course of his alleged employment by the board. The commission, the fund and the board denied that he was such employee under the terms of the act. The commission held that he was not such employee, “but that he is an independent contractor,” and denied compensation. He thereupon resorted to the district…