Boutwell v. Industrial Commission

Plaintiffs in error sought review of a decision of the Industrial Commission affirming the award of the arbitrator, and an order of the circuit court of Saline County confirming the decision of the commission and sustaining the motion of the claimant, Thomas P. Tapp, to quash the writ of certiorari. The award found all jurisdictional facts proved and awarded the employee $20.80 per week for three hundred weeks and an annual pension of $499.20, payable in monthly installments as provided by law. We granted a writ of error to review.

Respondent, Thomas P. Tapp, a coal miner, age fifty, married,…