Pohler v. T. W. Snow Construction Co.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The question-presented to us is whether there is sufficient competent evidence to warrant the commissioner’s finding that the employee’s fatal injury arose out of and in the course of the employmént.

Wm. F. Pohler had been employed by the T. W. Snow Construction Company for three or four years and worked fo^ it in six states. Much of the company’s work was upon pits, tanks and water mains for different railroads, especially the Milwaukee road. On November'8, 1945 Pohler had been working for three weeks near Mobridge, South Dakota, as supervisor of a crew…