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  "name": "FRED MORRIS, Appellant, v. THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION et al.-(Watson and Flagg Electric Company, Appellee.)",
  "name_abbreviation": "Morris v. Industrial Commission",
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      "FRED MORRIS, Appellant, v. THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION et al.\u2014(Watson and Flagg Electric Company, Appellee.)"
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "MR. JUSTICE SCHAEFER\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nThe Illinois Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act applies to \u201c[e] very person in the service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, including persons whose employment is outside of the State of Illinois where the contract of hire is made within the State of Illinois ***.\u201d (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 48, par. 138.1(b)2.) The claimant, Fred Morris, was injured in 1970 while working in Indiana for the respondent, Watson and Flagg Electric Company. The only issue in this case is whether the contract of hire was made in Illinois or Indiana.\nThe claimant, a resident of Illinois, went to the office of his union in Danville, Illinois, to find employment. The business agent testified that he gave the claimant a referral slip to the respondent \u201cas a letter of introduction for employment.\u201d The claimant traveled to the job site in Indiana at his own expense. There he met the respondent\u2019s supervisor, who testified that he personally evaluated the claimant, as he did all prospective employees, gave him employment forms to fill out, and then he was assigned to \u201cdirect supervision\u201d and \u201cthey *** put him on the job.\u201d Shortly thereafter the claimant fell from a scaffold at the job site and was injured.\nAn arbitrator for the Industrial Commission found that the contract of hire was not made in Illinois. The Commission heard additional evidence and affirmed, and the circuit court of Vermilion County confirmed the ruling of the Commission. The claimant has appealed.\nIn Severin v. Industrial Com. (1936), 363 Ill. 217, 219, this court stated: \u201cWe have repeatedly held that the Industrial Commission had no jurisdiction in cases where the injuries were sustained outside of the State unless the proof showed a contract of employment in Illinois.\u201d In this case both the arbitrator and the Commission held that the claimant had failed to prove that the contract was made in Hlinois. The claimant asserts that the union business agent was also an agent of the employer, and that the claimant accepted the employer\u2019s offer of employment in Illinois by agreeing to travel to the job site in Indiana. The difficulty with these assertions is that they are not supported by the testimony of the business agent of the union or the employer\u2019s supervisor. That testimony points to the conclusion that the contract of employment was not entered into until the claimant was put to work by the employer\u2019s supervisor in Indiana. The relevant contract documents between the union and the employer, which might have clarified the situation, were not offered by the claimant, either before the arbitrator or before the Commission.\nThe judgment of the circuit court is therefore affirmed.\nJudgment affirmed.",
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        "author": "MR. JUSTICE SCHAEFER"
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    "attorneys": [
      "WARREN E. DANZ, of Peoria, for appellant.",
      "HEYL, ROYSTER, VOELKER & ALLEN, of Springfield (GARY M. PEPLOW, of counsel), for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "(No. 45720.\nFRED MORRIS, Appellant, v. THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION et al.\u2014(Watson and Flagg Electric Company, Appellee.)\nOpinion filed November 30, 1973.\nWARREN E. DANZ, of Peoria, for appellant.\nHEYL, ROYSTER, VOELKER & ALLEN, of Springfield (GARY M. PEPLOW, of counsel), for appellee."
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