Pellett v. Industrial Commission
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane-county: E. Eat SteveNS, Circuit Judge. Action to set aside an award against the plaintiffs made by the Industrial Commission in favor of James Suffern, who-on July 29, 1914, sustained an injury while in their employ. Upon notice a hearing was had before the Commission in Manitowoc on August 28, 1914, and an award made.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane-county: E. Eat SteveNS, Circuit Judge. Action to set aside an award against the plaintiffs made by the Industrial Commission in favor of James Suffern, who-on July 29, 1914, sustained an injury while in their employ. Upon notice a hearing was had before the Commission in Manitowoc on August 28, 1914, and an award made. Subsequently the matter was opened up at the request of plaintiffs, who had not received the notices of the hearing mailed them, due to their absence from, home, and a further hearing was had November 4, 1914, at which time…
1Opinion of the CourtViNJE, J.
Plaintiffs complain of the finding that they were not misled to their prejudice by the failure of the claimant to give them written notice of his injury as required by *598statute. There is evidence that the next day after claimant fell and was hurt he told one of his employers how he fell and that he was hurt and had gone to a doctor; that the employer told him he would pay the doctor’s bill, and some time later did pay $5; that within thirty days his employers paid him $2 for loss of time caused by the injury. Such evidence, in the absence of any evidence to show that they were misled, was…
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