J. G. Boswell Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission

This is a proceeding to review an award of the Industrial Accident Commission in favor of Jack Owings, holding that he sustained a 100 per cent permanent disability and awarding him $5,445.60, payable over 240 weeks, $13.96 a week thereafter for the duration of his life, and also medical and hospital care, including insulin, for the treatment and relief of diabetes, for the remainder of his life.

Owings, who was 33 years old, was employed as a caretaker and repair man in cotton gins operated by J. G. Boswell Company. In May, 1939, before any injury occurred, both of his ankles became swollen…