Callaghan v. Brown

Loring, Chief Justice.

The relator petitioned the industrial commission for compensation under the workmen’s compensation act for the death of her husband. The referee and the commission found for the employer and its insurer. A writ of certiorari issued from this court to review the decision.

Eelator’s husband worked as a fireman in the Lonsdale Building at Duluth. His principal duty was to fire the boiler. None of his duties took him outside the building, but because of the nature of his work he often had some free time. It had become his habit, acquiesced in by. his employer, to leave the…