Bloomington, Decatur & Champaign Railroad v. Industrial Board

This writ of error is prosecuted to reverse a judgment of the circuit court of Macon county quashing a decision of the Industrial Board awarding compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation act, at the rate of five dollars per week for 416 weeks, to the plaintiff in error for the death of his intestate, Stavros Geanules, who was killed on April 17, 1914, by an interurban car of the defendant in error. The court found that the deceased was not at the time of his injury in the employ of the railroad company and that the accident resulting in his death did not arise out of or in the course of…