Employers Mutual Insurance v. Industrial Commission

The district court affirmed the commission’s second award which increased the allowance from 139 to 208 weeks. We think the commission and the court were right. The material facts are that on March 5, 1923, Duran, by accident in the' course of his employment, lost his arm two inches above the elbow; the commission awarded compensation for 208 weeks, and plaintiffs in error claim it should have been 139 weeks.

Compiled Laws, § 4447, which governs the case, specifies compensation for “loss of one arm between elbow and shoulder, 208 weeks; loss of forearm between wrist and elbow, 139 weeks * * *.…