Evans v. Chevrolet Motor Co.

This is an appeal by the employer and self-insurer from the judgment of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis affirming an award of the Workmen's Compensation Commission in favor of the employee. Originally the appeal was allowed to the Supreme Court, but for want of an affirmative showing in the record that the amount in dispute was within that court's pecuniary jurisdiction, it ordered the cause to be transferred here. [Evans v. Chevrolet Motor Co. (Mo.), 102 S.W.2d 594.]

The case involves a claim for compensation for a permanent total disability alleged to have resulted from an…