Charney v. Industrial Commission

The plaintiff was a ship carpenter, living at Green Bay, Wisconsin, employed by the defendant Burger Boat Company in its plant at Manitowoc, Wisconsin. From his home in Green Bay to his employer’s plant in Mani-towoc was a distance of approximately forty-one miles. Because of war conditions, the plaintiff and his associates were unable to find housing quarters in Manitowoc and they traveled forth and back each day. The employer encouraged his workmen to comply with the gasoline-rationing rules which they did, which rules required the employer to approve so-called transportation pools. Each of…