W. M. Allen Son. & Co. v. Industrial Commission

Mr. Justice; Dunn

delivered the opinion of the court:

Cyrus Kelly had been employed for two or three months prior to February ig, 1930, by W..M. Allen Son & Co. as a laborer in the construction of an extension of the St. Francis Hospital, in Peoria. On that day he was engaged in carrying sacks of cement, each weighing about ninety-eight pounds, from a large pile about eight feet high, which fell over on him, knocking him down and covering him. His back, neck and arm were hurt. Pie was in the hospital two and a half days, where he was treated by Dr. Wilson, and was afterward treated in his house…