Lincoln County v. Industrial Commission

The award of compensation, which the plaintiffs seek to have set aside, was based on injuries and disability sustained by Nelson while returning from work on November 6, 1937, upon the overturning of a truck furnished by Lincoln county to transport him and fellow workmen from the county’s wood lot to the city of Merrill, where they resided. Until he was laid off on October 3, 1937, Nelson was a railroad employee, and when he received his last pay check on October 28, 1937, he applied to the Lincoln county relief office for employment on the county’s wood lot, which he understood was available…