Hagelstad v. Usiak

1 Reported in 252 N.W. 430. Certiorari to review a decision of the industrial commission awarding compensation for an accidental injury.

Respondent and companion were engaged by relator to cut some cordwood on a 40-acre tract of land owned by him, at $1.25 per cord. They were to board themselves, but relator permitted them to occupy a shack on his land free of charge. When 14 1/2 cords had been cut the work ceased because relator was forbidden to haul the wood over a neighbor's land, there being no other practical way to get the wood out. A few days afterward relator, for $20, bought of a…