Heinen v. Motor Inn Corp.

This is a proceeding under the Workmen’s Compensation Law. Theodore Heinen, the husband of claimant, who is the appellee, was struck and killed by a passenger train at a railway crossing of the Illinois Central Railroad Company’s on January 28, 1924. The sole inquiry to which it is necessary to direct attention is: Did the death of Theodore Heinen arise out of and in the course of his employment as an automobile salesman of the defendant Motor Inn Corporation? The law that the injury, to be compensable, must arise out of and in the course of the employment is too well settled to require the…