Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Industrial Commission

HAIRE, Judge.

On this appeal by certiorari the petitioning self-insured employer complains of an Industrial Commission decision which awarded compensation to the respondent-employee for a disabling rheumatoid arthritic disease.

At the time the employee, Mrs. Fuller became disabled she was approximately 55 years old. Her testimony is that prior to 1965 she had held only one job — employment as a real estate saleslady for a short period in 1956. For her second venture into the employment world she sought work from the petitioner and was employed in June 1965 as a part-time telephone switchboard…