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NASH-KELVINATOR COR. v. INDUSTRIAL COMM.

266 Wis. 81 (1954)

NASH-KELVINATOR CORPORATION, Appellant, vs. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION and another, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

February 2, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief by Shea & Hoyt, attorneys, and Hamilton T. Hoyt of counsel, all of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Edmund B. Shea.

For the respondent Industrial Commission there was a brief by the Attorney General and Mortimer Levitan, assistant attorney general, and oral argument by Mr. Levitan.

For the respondent Roy W. Webb there was oral argument by M. Michael Essin of Milwaukee.

FAIRCHILD, C. J.

The matter here involves an assault arising out of mob violence resulting in injury to an employee of appellant and raises the question as to liability under the Workmen's Compensation Act.

Recovery under workmen's compensation is not the same as recovery under the common-law doctrine of the law of master and servant. Workmen's compensation statutes were passed "to ameliorate a social condition—not to define a situation or fix a liability...

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