Menginie v. Savine

Opinion by

Dithrich, J.,

Claimant has been thwarted in his efforts to obtain payment of workmen’s compensation for permanent injuries and total disability resulting from his becoming impaled on the spikes of an iron fence in a fall in the course of his employment. Claims arising under similar circumstances on and after January 2, 1952, the effective date of amendatory Act No. 481, will not be subject to such improvident delay. The amendment to the Workmen’s Compensation Act provides that “the referee or the board shall forthwith order payments to be immediately made by the defendants or the…