Mahlum v. Broeder

MR. JUSTICE JOHN C. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Edwin P. Mahlum, an injured workman, is receiving compensation under section 92-703, R.C.M.1947. He brings this appeal alleging error by the district court of the eleventh judicial district, the Honorable E. B. Foot, presiding judge, when it found, concluded, and ordered that his “wages received at the time of the injury,” within the meaning of section 92-703, were to be based on the usual and normal five-day week he worked, and not on the statutory six-day week provided for in section 92-422.

Mr. Mahlum, a woodsman working as a…