Montgomery Ward & Co. v. State Industrial Commission

In this case the State Industrial Commission awarded compensation to Ora D. Gentry, hereinafter referred to as respondent, and against Montgomery Ward & Company, hereinafter referred to as petitioner, for temporary total and permanent partial disability to respondent’s arm.

Petitioner brings the case here for review and challenges the . award on the sole ground that the evidence shows respondent, at the time he sustained his injury, was not engaged in any employment defined as hazardous by the Workmen’s Compensation Act, and that the commission was therefore without jurisdiction to award…