Goss v. State Industrial Accident Commission

On the Merits

(12 (2d) 1006)

BROWN, J.

Over and over again we have asserted that the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Law should be liberally construed and fairly applied, to the end that its humane purposes might be carried out. It was also the manifest purpose of the Compensation Law that compensation should be adjusted from time to time, as the disability increased or diminished: Farrin v. State Industrial Accident Commission, 104 Or. 452 (205 P. 984); Chebot v. State Industrial Accident Commission, 106 Or. 660 (212 P. 792). Moreover, section 49-1827, Oregon Code 1930, provides a…