Martin v. Tubize-Chatillon Corporation

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The controlling question is whether the allegations of the petition show that the plaintiff’s injuries resulted from an occupational disease or whether they resulted from an accidental injury compensable under the workmen’s compensation act. The plaintiff alleged that his employer was a manufacturer of rayon; that sulphuric acid is one of the ingredients of rayon and is used in the manufacture of rayon, and that in the kind of work performed by him for his employer he was exposed to the fumes which emanated from sulphuric acid; that his place of work was…