Milwaukee Malleable & Grey Iron Works v. Industrial Commission

The sole question in this case is whether there is any evidence to sustain the award of the Industrial Commission. This requires a review of the facts.

Applicant was born in Poland, January 8, 1872, and had worked as a molder in foundries for some twenty-five to thirty years. The last fifteen or sixteen years of his employ ment was at plaintiff’s foundry. He quit work on May 19, 1936, and on August 14, 1937, had his right leg amputated above the knee because of tuberculosis of the knee joint. Applicant’s father died of pneumonia in 1913; one of his daughters died October 15, 1933, in…