Ruehmann v. Consumers Ice Fuel Co. Inc.

HOLT, Justice.

Defendant appeals from a judgment rendered on the pleadings in favor of plaintiff for $439.14.

The complaint alleges that plaintiff was in the employ of defendant when, on February 9, 1931, he, in an accident arising out of and in the course of the employment, sustained an injury which caused a permanent partial loss of the use of his right hand; that by reason of such loss plaintiff was entitled to receive weekly payments for 75% weeks, totaling $1,204; that defendant represented to plaintiff that it was its custom and the law that plaintiff pay over to defendant the moneys…