Everhart v. Newark Cleaning & Dyeing Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Heher, J.

The decisive question is whether the Workmen’s Compensation act of 1911 (Pamph. L. 1911, pp. 131, ?(>3), as amended, grants compensation for mere bodily disfigurement, resulting in a material reduction of earning power. The award of the bureau based upon the disfigurement was thirty per cent, of .total permanent disability. It was reduced to ten per cent, by the Essex Common Pleas. The Supreme Court found a “very marked” facial disfigurement, caused hv acid scars. It construed the statute to provide for “disability alone” — that which…