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Show SUPREME COURT REVERSES THE CHANDLER CASE, RECALLING A DEATH CAUSED BY MAD DOfii A case of more thnn usual interest has Just been decided by the supreme court of l.'tnh. reversing Judge A W Agcc In the case of Emma Chandler s. State Industrial Commission, Aetnrx Life Insurance company and A. M Miller, Mil-ler, which was up for trial in our district dis-trict court some months ago. On March 25. 191S, George C. Chandler Chand-ler died a violent death at the Dec hospital, hos-pital, caused by the bite of a mad dog on January 26. 1918. while following nis occupation as delivery man for the Washington Market. The case la most novel and uniquo. for the reason that tho courti had never passed on a similar one It will be ro-called ro-called that George C. Chandler was a deliver man for tho Washington Market, and on January 26. 1,01 S. while on his way from his residence on Twenty-seventh street to the garage of his employer, em-ployer, located on Twenty-fifth street, to get tho automobile for making deliveries, he had a package of meat to delLver. which had not been delivered the niffht before, when he was attacked by a dog which afterward proved to have the rabies, and in the fight ''handler's hnnd was bitten. Dr George v. Baker was immediately called and dressed the wound, and although Mr chandler nuf- fered Intense pain, he regarded the miH ter as an ordinary dog h.te and proJM 'I I to work and continued such wodfl day for sixty flays when he was suddcnfl 1. taken violently sick and was re-H moved tn the Dee hospital, where hH died the following day a most slolenH death from hydrophobia. The wido Mrs Emma Chandler presented a clal lor his death to the state industrial com-1 mission, and asked compensation und the Workmen's Compensation Law. but the Commission declined to make (MjH award, whereupon nn appeal wns takin H to our district courl. nr. I a Jurv t rial Wk di mended, but .JikIp- a gee held that Mrafl 1 handh i h'ul nr. standinc: In tlr- court. jM and was not entitled to re lief and dl- 9 I missed the mse. whereupon Mrs. rhand-j I ler. through her attorneys ''hc-z & Baf I kcr, appealed the case i. iip. suprontt I court, which has j-im h . nded down itlfl a unanimous decision written by JustlejB I Frlck reversing Judcro Age an-1 rH I nnnilir1.' the :.. the ,h.tru"t cojrt j for trial by Jury. s The df.-i.-ion Is one r,f f.i : -re.-ichinif jfc consequence and of tho greatest im- J t portance m the people -,r tt.ih. It in- J j, terpreta the law and hold.- ihnt it nvist 1 ; he hh rr.ll . . ..n.-.tru.-d in .v. I to f- . com ph. h t)i" Irim-tri'' pa rT'C. -- for whkh L It was enacte I |