Ismert Hincke Milling Co. v. Ellis

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

James Ellis was injured while in the employ of Ismert Hincke Milling Company. He and his employer entered into an agreement for arbitration under the workmen’s compensation act. The arbitrator made an award finding that while he was engaged in catching empty tin cans, weighing from 65 to 70 pounds each, used for packing flour, the first three fingers of his left hand were severely cut, becoming as a result curved, stiff and atrophied, so that there was no grip at all in his index finger and little in the other two, the aggregate grip of his…