Stockdale v. Industrial Commission

The district court affirmed an award by the Industrial Commission in favor of Dale Hunter, minor dependent of Harold Hunter. Laura Stockdale, who brought this action on behalf of the minor, brings the case here for review because the Commission reduced the award fifty per cent, under C. L. § 4457, on the ground that the death resulted from Hunter’s “wilful failure to obey” a rule adopted by his employer for his safety.

Hunter met his death by the breaking of a bridge across which he was driving a team of horses attached to a wagon which carried a large tank filled with water. He and all his…