Rayner v. Sligh Furniture Co.

This case is brought here by certiorari to the industrial accident board. Adelbert Rayner, the applicant’s husband, was injured while in respondent’s factory in the city of Grand Rapids. About 100 carvers and cabinet workers were employed on the third floor of the factory, and, on the blowing of the noon whistle, each workman was required to proceed to the end of the room and punch the time clock before leaving for dinner. Mr. Rayner, who was working on this floor, about 150 feet from the time clock, on November 5, 1912, when the whistle blew at noon, started on a run from his bench to the…