Howe v. Morris

BARRETT, Commissioner.

The State Treasurer as custodian of the Second Injury Fund has appealed a circuit court judgment which affirmed an Industrial Commission award to Olga Howe of total and permanent disability benefits against the fund amounting, after the employer-insurer’s liability, to 253 weeks at $42.50 a week and thereafter for the remainder of the employee’s life $27.50 a week. The attack on the award is twofold; first, that “the award was clearly contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence.” The basis of this ground is that the evidence showed that after the employee’s right…