Walker v. Kansas Gasoline Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This is an appeal from an order setting aside a release and modification of an award made by the commissioner of the workmen’s compensation law on June 17, 1927. A. L. Walker was an employee of The Kansas Gasoline Company and was accidentally injured in the course of his employment, with the result that he was permanently and totally disabled. He was engaged in *577laying a gas pipe near Winfield, and while lowering the pipe in a ditch the men helping in the work let loose of the pipe, so that the whole weight rested upon him, resulting in…