Wagner v. LaSalle Foundry Co.

Defendant-appellant claims the workmen’s compensation commission erred in finding that plaintiff-appellee was totally disabled because of pneumonoconiosis and in ordering the defendant to pay plaintiff $24 per week, but not to exceed $10,500.

Plaintiff, a man 68 years of age, a molder for 40 years, was first employed in a foundry in New York State. He subsequently worked as a molder for a St. Joseph, Michigan, foundry from 1924 to 1931, and at a foundry located at Benton Harbor, Michigan, from 1935 to 1944. Plaintiff then moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and was employed at 2 Cleveland foundries for…