Burkholder v. Clark

This is a compensation case. The Nebraska workmen’s compensation court found for the plaintiff and awarded compensation for total permanent disability. From this award defendant appealed to the district court, which found for the defendant, setting aside the award of the compensation court and dismissing plaintiff’s cause of action. Plaintiff appeals, contending the district court was in error in that its finding and judgment were contrary to the evidence and the law.

The evidence discloses that the plaintiff, a painter and paper hanger, had worked on several occasions for one E. L. Call, now…