Middlebusher v. State Industrial Accident Commission

This is an appeal by the State Industrial Accident Commission from a judgment awarding to plaintiff, under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, compensation for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff while engaged in the scaling of logs. The case was tried on an agreed statement of facts. As so stipulated, the facts are: One Jake Steiger was the owner of certain standing timber in Klamath county which he had contracted to sell to one G. C. Lorenz and it was stipulated that: “when and as the said timber was cut and removed from the land by the said Lorenz, the said Steiger…