Rodgers v. City of Hammond

OTT, Judge.

Plaintiff sues the city of Hammond for compensation for a period of 400 weeks, based on 65 per cent, of his weekly wage of $35.70, plus $250 for medical expenses. His claim is for total permanent disability resulting from the loss of his arm .from an accident while repairing and overhauling the electric motors and pumps of the sewage disposal plant of said city on May 13, 1937. While plaintiff claims the full amount of 65 per cent, of his said weekly wage, or $23.21, for the full 400 weeks, yet he has evidently overlooked the fact ‘that in no event could he recover more than the…