Rooney v. State

These cases were consolidated for hearing and opinion, since both arose out of the same occurrence.

Claimants, Thomas Rooney and his wife, Mary Rooney, seek to recover under the Workmen’s Compensation Act for injuries that arose out of and in the course of their employment as cottage parents at the State Training School for Boys, St. Charles, Illinois, operated by the Department of Public Welfare.

On July 7,1950, an opinion was handed down in these cases in which an award was made to claimant, Thomas Rooney, for temporary total disability that he had not been paid, and a specific loss under…