Trzoniec v. General Controls Co.

This is an appeal from a decree of the workmen’s compensation commission denying and dismissing the employee’s original petition for total disability compensation and for an “Acknowledgement of acceptance of liability on employer’s behalf, by Employers Mutual of Wassau, as Workmens Comp. Liability Carrier.”

The material facts are not in dispute. On November 20, 1960 petitioner, a foreman whose weekly salary was $159 and who had been in respondent’s employ for thirty-two years, sustained a compensable injury which totally incapacitated him from engaging in any work from the date of his injury…