Gould Construction Co. v. Industrial Commission

Otto Holtmann, while employed as a carpenter by the Gould Construction Company in building a railroad bridge across the Kankakee river at Kankakee, on July 22, 1918, received an injury from a four-by-six timber five feet long falling upon and injuring his head and breaking his right arm. On January 18, 1919, he filed with the Industrial Commission an application for an award of compensation, which was heard by an arbitrator, and on November 10, 1919, an award was made in his favor of $13 a week for eight weeks’ temporary total incapacity to work. He filed a petition for review on November 15,…