Soukup v. Shores Co.

Donegan, J.-

-On December 22, 1933, the claimant, Frank Soukup, was working for the Shores Company. While engaged in tearing down part of a brick building he fell from a scaffold upon which he was standing and sustained a fracture of the os calcis or heel bone. On January 16, 1934, the claimant and his employer and the St. Paul-Mercury Indemnity Company, which carried the employer’s liability insurance, filed in the office of A. B. Funk, Iowa industrial commissioner, a memorandum agreement of settlement under which the claimant’s compensation was fixed at $7.26 per week. After 49’such weekly…