Meek v. Wheeler, Kelly & Hagny Investment Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.;

This action arose under the compensation law. Plaintiff was injured by falling from a scaffold while painting the *70interior of a business building in Wichita. The defendant, his employer, paid plaintiff $435 as compensation, at the rate of $15 per week for 29 weeks following his injury; after which period payments were stopped, on the assumed ground that plaintiff’s incapacity had ceased. ■ This action followed.

An advisory 'jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff in the sum of $1,700, together with certain special findings of fact:

“Speci…