Zurich General Accident & Liability Insurance v. Industrial Commission

Two major questions are presented in this case by the contentions made by the respective par*139ties: (1st) Did the deceased give his employer “actual notice” of his disability on August 21, 1923, as found by the commission? (2d) If the notice was sufficient, what legal consequences follow therefrom? In view of some considerations to which it will be necessary to recur at a later point in the discussion, we commence our consideration with the 1919 statute, which was in effect at the time the deceased suffered a disability on January 14, 1920. The section relating to notice was section 2394 — -11,…