Mechanics Universal Joint Division, Borg-Warner Corp. v. Industrial Commission

Writ of error has been granted by this court to review a judgment of the circuit court of Winnebago County which set aside an award of the Industrial Commission for permanent injuries allegedly sustained by Russell A. Gladfelder, herein called petitioner, in the course of his employment by Mechanics Universal Joint Division, Borg-Warner Corporation, herein referred to as respondent.

It appears that the forty-one-year-old petitioner had for many years been employed by respondent as a “stock chaser,” the performance of which employment required him to walk as much as twenty miles a day gathering…