Rexroat v. State

This is a workmen’s compensation case. It is not disputed that the claimant (appellant), a common laborer, aged 39 years, on February 26, 1932, an employee of the department of roads and irrigation of the state of Nebraska, was working on hig'hway No. 20, about a mile and a half west of South Sioux City, Nebraska, with a road grader, to be pulled behind a tractor, and in endeavoring to hitch the grader to a five-ton caterpillar tractor, the tractor backed over the appellant’s right foot and right leg. The accident arose out of and in the course of appellant’s employment, as provided in…