Liesinger v. Owen-Ames-Kimball Co.

Plaintiff, a skilled boilermaker employed by defendant Owen-Ames-Kimball Company, suffered severe spinal injuries in an industrial accident in April, 1950. Since the accident he no longer has effective control of his body from his hips to his toes. Resumption of his skilled employment as a boilermaker is out of the question. Yet, by his own efforts since his injury, he has acquired the skills of a shop welder, an occupation he can perform, for a sympathetic employer, while seated.

At the time of plaintiff’s injury, section 9, part 21 of our workmen’s compensation law, provided that while an…