John Rissman & Son v. Industrial Commission

On March 20, 1923, Dora Howard and William Howard, plaintiffs in error, were awarded compensation by an arbitrator in the sum of $7.50 a week for 220 weeks under paragraph (c) of section 7 of the Workmen’s Compensation act on account of the accidental death of their daughter, Josephine Howard, who had been previous to her death employed to operate a power-driven sewing machine at the overall factory of John Rissman & Son, defendant in error, in Westville, Illinois, from January, 1920, to August 2, 1920, and that they were entitled to receive from respondent $1035 on March 28, 1923, with the…