Industrial Commission v. Rowe

This writ of error involves a claim filed April 24, 1964, under the Workmen’s Compensation Act by Elmer Rowe, the defendant in error here.

Rowe had been employed by the Denver-Golden Corporation, one of the plaintiffs in error, as a foreman in its Schwartzwalder Uranium mine and claimed total disability from the occupational disease of silicosis. The referee awarded Rowe benefits of $11,400 under the escalator clause of C.R.S. 1963, 81-18-16. Five thousand dollars of the award was to be paid by respondents Denver-Golden Corporation and State Compensation Insurance Fund; the balance was to be…