American Bridge Co. v. Funk
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court. — O. D. Wheeler, Judge. Certiorari to test the jurisdiction of the industrial commissioner to award compensation to an employee for injuries claimed to have been received by him in the course of his employment. The finding and award of the commissioner was sustained by the court below, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtStevens, J.
One Pettit, on and prior to the date on which he was fatally injured, was employed by the American Bridge Company as an assistant, or carpenter’s helper, on a new bridge which appellant was erecting for the Union Pacific Bailway Company across the Missouri Biver between Council Bluffs and Omaha. Shortly after he arrived on the premises on the morning of November 4, 1916, to go to work, he was struck and run over by a railway train, and instantly killed. His beneficiary made claim against appellant, under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, and it was found by the committee of arbitration, before…
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