Case ID: ill-app_203/html/0431-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wood Street Planing Mill Company, Appellant, v. Industrial Board of Illinois et al., Appellees.
    Gen. No. 21,941.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Harry C. Moran, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1915.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed February 9, 1917.
    
      Certiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final).
    Statement of the Case.
    Petition by Wood Street Planing Mill Company, petitioner, against J. B. Vaughn, Peter J. Angsten and Robert Eadie, Industrial Board of Illinois, for a writ of certiorari to review proceedings before that Board under the Workmen’s Compensation Act [Cal. Ill. St. Supp. 1916, ¶5475(1) et seq.], wherein an award of $3,500 was made as compensation for the death of one Charles Brichacek. From a judgment quashing the writ of certiorari and dismissing the petition, petitioner appeals.
    Abstract of the Decision.
    • 1. Workmen’s Compensation Act, § 13
      
      —•when findings of Industrial Board will not be disturbed. Where the evidence before the Industrial Board upon which an award was based was conflicting as to whether the deceased was engaged in the course of his employment when he was killed, but was sufficient from which to reasonably infer that he was then so employed, held, on a petition for a writ of certiorari to review such award, that as the statute has conferred on said Board the sole right to pass upon questions of fact and the credibility of witnesses, the Appellate Court was powerless to disturb its findings, notwithstanding the Board attached undue weight to suspicious circumstances.
    2. Workmen’s Compensation Act, § 12
      
      —when evidence is sufficient to show that employee was killed while engaged in the course of his employment. In proceedings before the Industrial Board under the Workmen’s Compensation Act [Cal. Ill. St. Supp. 1916, f| 5475(1) et seg.], to recover compensation for the death of an employee, evidence held sufficient from which to reasonably infer that the deceased was when killed engaged in the course of his employment while operating a ripsaw in his employer’s planing mill.
    John A. Bloomingston, for appellant.
    David K, Tone, for appellees.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice McDonald

delivered the opinion of the court.