County of Winnebago v. Industrial Commission

Plaintiff in error, David L. Dotz, was employed by the county of Winnebago, defendant in error, on August 1, 1926, as a special investigator “to run down evidence against bootleggers” in that county to aid the State’s attorney of defendant in error in the prosecution of violations of the criminal law relating to intoxicating liquors. Plaintiff in error worked at his employment from eight to twelve hours a day, at fifty cents per hour. On September 22, 1926, while so employed and while riding in a Ford coupe on a street in the city of Rockford, in said county, a large sedan was driven in front…