Caputo v. Best Foods, Inc.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Heher, J.

The questions here concern the statutory allowances for the services of counsel and reimbursement for “reparative payments” after the rendering of the prescribed compensation for total and permanent disability, where the workman’s disabling injury was the result of a third person’s negligence, and the recovery in tort from the third-party tortfeasor exceeded the employer’s liability under the Workmen’s Compensation Act.

The consequence of the injury was total blindness. The accident occurred September 1,1949. The employer acknowledged liability…