Great Western Sugar Co. v. Hewitt

This is a compensation case, in which the claimant recovered judgment in the district court for total disability for permanent injuries sustained in an accident December 4, 1931, while employed by the Great Western Sugar Company at its factory at Lyman, Nebraska. Said judgment included attorney’s fees in the sum of $150.

The bill of exceptions discloses that the claimant was 42 years of age, the father of six children, and had been employed at common labor by the defendant since the beginning of the sugar-beet campaign on October 7, 1931. At the time of the accident he was assisting in…