Ford v. Goode

— The defendant company bought skins and carcasses of fur-bearing animals. They employed Clyde Ford who skinned animals and stretched the hides. Mr. Ford' worked with a slight cut or scratch on one finger. He became sick and the last day he worked was November 19, 1947. The cut developed into an “indolent ulcer”, described by the doctor as a manifestation of tularemia and he developed all the other symptoms of tularemia and died of that disease on December 3, 1947. His dependent widow and daughter obtained an award for death benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Act from tbe industrial…