Simmons Co. v. Industrial Commission

The plaintiff claims the award was erroneous because the evidence before the commission establishes that (1) the employee’s injuries were self-inflicted — in other *448words, the employee committed suicide; because (2) the employee was not “performing service growing out of and incidental to his employment” when at the elevator shaft down which he fell; and that (3) if an award was proper it should have been reduced fifteen per cent, under sec. 102.58, Stats.(1) The statute imposing the conditions of liability for workmen’s compensation provides that compensation shall not be allowed “where the…