Sunlight Coal Co. v. Industrial Commission

Defendant in error, Joseph C. Viano, was awarded compensation at the rate of $14 a week for 267-6/7 weeks for permanent total disability as the result of an accidental injury sustained by him on February 11, 1929, while an employee of plaintiff in error, the Sunlight Coal Company. On November 2, 1931, he filed with the Industrial Commission a petition asking that the unpaid balance of the award be paid to him in a lump sum. After a hearing on the petition the commission ordered that the balance of compensation due Viano be commuted and paid to him in a lump sum of $1757.75. The decision of…