Stokes v. Miller

ELLIS, Judge.

This is a suit in which the plaintiff is seeking the maximum compensation of $30 per week for 400 weeks from his employer, Sam J. Miller, and the latter’s insurer, Coal Operators’ Casualty Company, both made defendants herein, for an alleged accidental injury on or about September 17, 1949 while operating a bulldozer for his employer and which injuries resulted in a ruptured intervertebral disc.

There was judgment in the district court in favor of the plaintiff, awarding to him compensation of $30 per week for a period not to exceed 400 weeks, with the usual judicial interest, and…