Carney v. Guard Publishing Co.

In this action for back pay for failure to reemploy a worker who sustained a compensable injury, defendant Guard Publishing Company appeals the judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $20,000. Defendant advances three assignments of error, each of which challenges the trial court’s refusal to give a particular jury instruction:

1) Refusing to instruct the jury that if defendant offered plaintiff a specific suitable job and if plaintiff did not take it, defendant’s obligation was satisfied.

2) Refusing to instruct the jury that plaintiff’s measure of damages was not measured by the wages of his…