State ex rel. Faribault Woolen Mills Co. v. District Court
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Upon the relation of Faribault Woolen Mills Company and Globe Indemnity Company, the supreme court granted its writ of certiorari directed to the district court for Bice county to review the proceedings in that court, Childress, J., under the Workmen’s Compensation Act brought by Clara Bobertson, as employee, against the first named relator as employer.
1Opinion of the Court
Taylor, C.
We are called upon to review the action of the district court of Rice county in allowing compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Act to an employee of the relator for temporary disability caused by typhoid fever, the germs of which are alleged to have been ingested by drinking infected water furnished in the relator’s factory for the use of its employees. If contracting this disease by drinking infected water was an accident within the definition thereof contained in the law, the evidence is probably sufficient to sustain the findings of the district court. Our statute, so far…
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- Ætna Life Ins. v. Portland Gas & Coke Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1916
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