Ketchum v. Industrial Commission

This appeal is from an order of the circuit court of Cook County which reversed a decision of the Industrial Commission holding that the petitioner, Ralph E. Ketchum, did not incur any permanent disability by reason of an injury which he sustained on March 11, 1965.

The circuit court reversed the Commission on the ground that its judgment was against the manifest weight of the evidence. The court awarded Ketchum the sum of $50 per week for a period of 30 weeks pursuant to section 8-e of the Worlcmen’s Compensation Act on the basis that he suffered a yji percent permanent loss of the use of…