Raffaghelle v. Russell

*850The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The plaintiff was employed in defendant’s coal mine. A large rock fell from the roof of the mine and ¿rushed a fellow workman. In response to the latter’s appeal for help, plaintiff sustained a femoral rupture while exerting all his strength to 'lift the rock from the injured man.

This case was brought under the workmen’s compensation act, and the trial court awarded plaintiff a lump-sum judgment computed on the basis of five dollars and some cents per week for eight years, pursuant to a finding that plaintiff’s injuries were of a permanent…