73 Ind. App. 589 | Ind. Ct. App. | 1920
The superintendent of the county poor asylum of Greene county, by oral direction of the board of commissioners of the county, the appellant herein, employed one John H. Shertzer, a painter and paperhanger, to do certain painting and paperhanging, for which work said Shertzer was to receive fifty cents an hour for painting and thirty cents a roll for hanging
Appellees, who were the dependents of Shertzer, made application to the Industrial Board for compensation, and, upon hearing evidence showing the above facts, the board found that Shertzer at the time of his injury was in the employment of appellant, and that his death was the result of an accident arising out of and in the course of such employment, and made an award in favor of appellee Jennie M. Shertzer.
Appellant has assigned as error that the award is not sustained by sufficient evidence, and is contrary to law.
It is first urged by appellant that Shertzer' at the time of the accident which resulted in his death was an independent contractor, and that there is no evidence to sustain the finding of' the Industrial Board that he was at the time in the employment of appellant. .
It is asserted by appellant that it conclusively appears from the evidence that Shertzer fell to his death as a result of an attack of vertigo, and that therefore there can be no recovery of compensation, even though it should be found that at the time of the accident he was in the employ of appellant.
Affirmed.