Reader v. Milwaukee Lumber Co.

The widow of John Reader, for herself and two minor children, seeks compensation for the death of her husband, who had been employed by the Milwaukee Lumber Company. The accident board denied compensation. The district court reversed the action of the board, and made and entered its judgment for the payment of compensation.

The board found that deceased “had an idiosyncrasy toward ‘cedar poisoning’ and whenever he came in contact with cedar lumber or worked in and around where cedar lumber was being manufactured he would develop an attack of dermatitis.....” The court found that “paragraph…