Perkins v. Jackson Cushion Spring Co.

Defendant Jackson Cushion Spring Company is an employer of labor operating under the employers’ liability act with defendant General Accident, Fire & Life Assurance Corporation, Ltd., as its insurer. They here contest an award of $45 for disability and $26 for hospital and medical expenses allowed to claimant who had worked for the employer for nearly six years. Claimant’s work consisted in putting strips in metal frames by the use of a pair of pliers. In this work a bone felon developed, resulting in disability for six and one-half weeks, and necessitating hospital and medical expenses to…