Buda Co. v. Industrial Commission

John Kut claimed compensation for disablement alleged to have been caused by an occupational disease arising out of his employment by plaintiff in error as an iron molder. The arbitrator and commission found Kut had suffered disablement by reason of silicosis contracted in his employment and allowed compensation for total, permanent disability. The superior court, of Cook county sustained the award. On this writ of error the court is asked to determine whether the finding of the commission is against the manifest weight of the evidence.

Kut, aged fifty-eight, was employed as a molder for…