Walker v. Midwest Foods

Relators, Midwest Foods, and its compensation insurance carrier, Federated Mutual Implement & Hardware Insurance Company, seek review of an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission vacating a compensation award, made May 28,1969, on the basis of a stipulation of the parties, and allowing the case to be reopened pursuant to Minn. St. 176.461.

Employee, Jesse Walker, who is presently 64 years of age and unemployed, filed a workmen’s compensation claim in December 1967 for a hip injury, allegedly caused by a fall which had occurred nearly 3 years earlier on February 10,1965. Pursuant to his…