Mullen v. City of Hastings

This, is a proceeding instituted by Harriet Louise Mullen, widow of Harley Mullen, deceased, under the workmen’s compensation law. Comp. St. 1929, secs. 48-101 et seq. Upon trial in the district court for Adams county, judgment was entered for the plaintiff. Defendant city appeals.

The deceased, approximately 49 years of age, was employed as a member of the fire department of the defend*173ant, city of Hastings, and was on duty as such at the time of his death. About 10 o’clock p. m. on June 17, 1931, this fire department had been summoned to Ingleside, Nebraska, by the discovery of a fire in some…