Arnold & Murdock Co. v. Industrial Board

Mr. Justicr Earmrr

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant in error Walter Jacobs was injured March 26, 1914, while in the employ of the plaintiff in error, the Arnold & Murdock Company, as a teamster in the city of Chicago. On April 11, 1914, he executed a general release to plaintiff in error for the expressed sum of $7.88. A petition was filed by Jacobs with the Industrial Board on March 15, 1915, setting out the date of his injury and how he was injured while in the employ of plaintiff in error; that he was immediately disabled between two and three weeks, when the disability was…