Industrial Commission v. Employers Mutual Insurance

This is a proceeding instituted before the Industrial Commission under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. The commission awarded the claimant, an employee, conpensation at the rate of §10 per week. The district court, on appeal by the insurer and the employer, set aside this award and ordered the commission to make an award of §5 per week. To review the judgment of the district court, the commission and the claimant bring the cause here for review.

Under section 77 of the act of 1919 (section 4451 C. L. 1921) the claimant is entitled to an award of “fifty per cent, of the average weekly wages,”…