Claim of Wrubel v. Surprise Press

In this appeal the payment of an award of disability compensation to claimant is resisted upon the ground *193that his employer paid him his full wages during the period of disability for which the award has been made.

It is conceded that the wages aforesaid were paid. They exceeded in both amount and rate the sum awarded by the Referee’s decision which the board has affirmed. The employer filed no claim for reimbursement. Appellants contend that the employer’s payment of wages during the period of disability was the legal equivalent of the compensation which has been awarded and that therefore…