International Sales Co. v. Industrial Commission

The Industrial Commission awarded Edna Fitzhenry compensation for the permanent fifty per cent loss of use of one leg, plus medical bills of $250 and a hospital bill of $410.70, and also compensation for temporary total incapacity for the period of 67 and 1/7 weeks. On certiorari the superior court set this award aside, and the cause is before us by writ of error, on leave granted.

Briefly, the facts are as follows: In the spring of 1927, while Edna Fitzhenry, who worked under the name of DeVeaux, was a resident of Newark, New Jersey, she answered an advertisement in a local paper for a sales…