Hallett v. J. T. McDowell & Sons

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fatzer, J.:

In this workmen’s compensation case the appellant employer, J. T. McDowell & Sons, and its insurance carrier contend there was no substantial competent evidence to sustain the district court’s findings: (1) that the claimant sustained personal injury by accident on September 20, 1958, arising out of and in the course of his employment, and (2) that the claimant was 25 percent permanently partially disabled.

In addition to adopting the findings of the commissioner resolving those questions in favor of the claimant, the district court made the…