Skelly Oil Co. v. Johnson

I cannot agree with the majority of the court in their decision to set aside the award in this case. It is but another one of the judicial enactments in the “latter days” that are gradually undermining the authority conferred by statute on the Industrial Commission.

The size of the award in this case necessarily will be large, as any one would know that a boy the age of this one, afflicted with epilepsy as the result of an engine house falling on him and breaking his skull, would likely be on the hands of the oil company, which is its own insurance carrier, for a very long time.

The boy has…