Weymer v. Industrial Commission

This cause is here on writ of error to review the judgment of the circuit court of Logan County vacating and setting aside a decision of the Industrial Commission which awarded compensation to Thomas Hamilton, the plaintiff in error, at a hearing conducted under the provisions of section 19(h) of the Workmen’s Compensation Act. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1947, chap. 48, par. 156(h).

Hamilton, a painter employed by Floyd Weymer, was injured on August 28, 1945, when he fell from a ladder while at his employment. He was sixty-one years of age at the time and suffered fractures of the pelvis and of the right…