Swift & Co. v. Industrial Commission

An application was filed with the Industrial Board on October 13, 1914, by Frank Blum, defendant in error, for adjustment of claim for injuries alleged to have been incurred by him while in the employ of Swift & Co. The arbitration committee decided that he was not entitled to compensation. On review the Industrial Board awarded compensation of $7.50 per week for a period of 416 weeks from April 10, 1914, and ordered that if at the expiration of that time Blum were living, he should recover from the plaintiff in error a pension of $257.60 a year, payable semimonthly, as long as he might live.…