. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 20 The Florists^ Review JANDAUV 18, is'loition and Le5^ IDecision SCOPE OF COMPENSATION ACTS. Courts Defining Limitations. Vaughan's Seed Store, Chicago, re- cently obtained a ruling by the Illinois Supreme court to the effect that an Illi- nois employer who has not expressly elected to be bound by the provisions of the Illinois Workmen's Compensation Act is not liable under that act for in- jury sustained by an employee in a non- hazardous branch of the employer's operations. (114 Northeastern Keporter, 163.) One Simonini had been employed
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 20 The Florists^ Review JANDAUV 18, is'loition and Le5^ IDecision SCOPE OF COMPENSATION ACTS. Courts Defining Limitations. Vaughan's Seed Store, Chicago, re- cently obtained a ruling by the Illinois Supreme court to the effect that an Illi- nois employer who has not expressly elected to be bound by the provisions of the Illinois Workmen's Compensation Act is not liable under that act for in- jury sustained by an employee in a non- hazardous branch of the employer's operations. (114 Northeastern Keporter, 163.) One Simonini had been employed on one of the seed company's farms in Cook county, doing ordinary farm work, teaming, caring for horses, etc. Having l)ecn injured by being kicked by a horse in the course of his employment, he brought proceedings against the com- pany to recover an award under the Compensation These proceedings have been dismissed by the Supreme court as being unauthorized by the law. Not ExtrarHazardous. Applying the provision of the Act, the court finds that the case could be brought within the provisions of the law only on a theory that the employee waa engaged in an extra-hazardous employ- ment, since the company had not signi- fied its election to be bound by the law. The salient parts of the opinion read as follows: "The injury sustained by the plain- tiff in error was not one arising out of or in the course of any employment de- clared to be extra-hazardous. His em- ployment was not different from that of the ordinary farm laborer. * » • Assuming, but not deciding or intimat- ing, that maintaining and using the greenhouse, storehouse, and elevator was engaging in an extra-hazardous business, we shall consider the latter proposition only, whether the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act applied to all the business of the em- ))loyer, without reference to its connec- tion with the particular extrahazardous business. Lets Greenhousemen Out? ''The authority to elect gi
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