Mumm v. State

For some time prior to, and on December 4th, 1935, the claimant, W. J. Mumm, was in the employ of the respondent as an associate in plant breeding in the Agronomy Department of the College of Agriculture of the University of Illinois, at a salary of $195.83 per month.

Claimant was employed to give class instruction, to do corn breeding work, and experiment work on corn variety test plots. On the date last mentioned, while in the performance of his duties, claimant was husking corn by hand at the DeKalb Experimental Field, which is operated for experimental and educational purposes by the…