Bryant v. McAllister

The trial judge gave judgment in favor of the employee, "William McAllister under the "Workmen’s Compensation Law7, and his employers have appealed. The lower court found that petitioner vms working on a 40 hour v7eek basis; that he had actually worked 25.43 weeks, making an average salary of $49.44 per week which entitled him to recover $30 per week for 200 weeks.

On August 14, 1956, while working as a sawyer at defendant’s circular saw mill, his arm was injured and as a result was amputated immediately below the elbow joint.

It is not necessary to set out in detail how the accident occurred,…