Hayes v. Industrial Commission

The following opinion was filed June 23, 1930:

Fairchild, J.

The purpose of the workmen’s compensation legislation is to place the burden of payment for disability resulting from accident and occupational disease upon the industry which caused the disability. There must be some causal relationship between the accident or the disease and the work of the employment. There is no rule of law which attempts to shift this burden to a subsequent employer who has in no way caused or contributed to the disability, accident, or disease. The contention that a rule has been suggested in Schaefer & Co. v.…