Claim of Block v. Ready-Froelich, Inc.

The evidence will sustain some award for reduced earnings on account of partial disability of the claimant, a salesman who was injured on June 8, 1929. The amount of his compensation both before and after the accident was fixed by way of commissions on the sales made by him. The record indicates that the difference between his earnings in 1929 prior to the accident and those after is due partly to a business depression through which this country and the world is now passing. The Board gave no consideration to this element. “ Failure to find work is, indeed, no ground for compensation if the…