Nels Johnson Tree Experts, Inc. v. Industrial Commission

The only question which is put by this appeal is whether the finding of the Industrial Commission that the employee had sustained a 75% permanent loss of the use of the right leg was contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence.

On January 2, 1968, Dallas Wallace, who had been employed as a foreman and tree trimmer for the Neis Johnson Tree Experts, Inc. for ten years, fell 35 feet from a tree on which he had been working. He filed a claim before the Industrial Commission, and after a hearing the arbitrator decided that he had sustained a 100% permanent loss of the use of the right leg. On…