Industrial Commission v. Gintert

A decision of this case requires only a consideration of the basic principles of the Workmen’s Compensation Law, and an application thereof to the facts disclosed by the record. Let us paraphrase the statement of Webster upon the occasion when he pictured the mariner endeavoring to ascertain how far he had been driven by the elements from his true course and suggested that we “imitate his prudence and before we float further on the waves refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at least be able to conjecture where we now are.”

The ’Workmen’s Compensation Act was passed pursuant…