GROSS v. STATE INDUS. COMM'N

GROSS v. STATE INDUS. COMM'N
1926 OK 44
245 P. 580
117 Okla. 33
Case Number: 15782
Decided: 01/19/1926
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

GROSS
v.
STATE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION et al.

Syllabus

¶0 1. Master and Servant--Workmen's Compensation Law -- Medical Attention at Employer's Expense--Emergency Treatment.
A person employed as a telephone operator has no authority, as agent of the employer, to select a surgeon or physician and hospital accommodations for an injured fellow employe.
2. Same. An employer cannot be held responsible for physician and hospital bills incurred by reason of service rendered an injured employe, other than for emergency treatment, unless he refuses to select or engage a physician and hospital accommodations suitable to render and supply all necessary services, within a reasonable time.

Commissioners' Opinion, Division No. 3.

Error from the Industrial Commission.

Action by Oscar Gross to review award of workmen's compensation made by the State Industrial Commission against the Feenberg Pipe & Supply Company and Associated Employers' Reciprocal. Affirmed.

Phil W. Davis, Jr., for petitioner.
Hunt & Eagleton, for respondents.

JONES, C.