Sayre v. Textile Machine Works

Opinion by

Cunningham, J:

The appeal in this workmen’s compensation case is by the claimant. On February 10, 1928, he was accidentally struck on the head by a falling brick while in the course of his employment, as a common laborer, with the defendant-appellee. An open agreement for compensation for total disability was executed by the parties and approved by the board. In it his injuries were described as a “depressed, comminuted, compound fracture of skull with contusion and laceration of brain,” and his weekly wages at the time of the accident were fixed at $25.20. Under this agreement he…