Marshall Field & Co. v. Industrial Commission

Dilla E. Dunlap, an employee of Marshall Field & Co., received an injury in. the course of her employment for which an award was made by the Industrial Commission, which the circuit court of Cook county confirmed, and a writ of error was allowed to review the record.

The defendant in error, in the afternoon of February 18, 1919, slipped and fell on the sixth floor of the building in which plaintiff in error is conducting a department store. She weighed more than two hundred pounds, and besides being rather severely jarred by the fall she injured her right thumb. She went to the nurse’s room,…