Warner v. Zaiser

Certiorari to review a decision of the industrial commission awarding a lump sum as unpaid compensation to petitioner, a dependent widow without children, for the accidental death of her husband arising out of and in the course of his employment.

The husband died December 22, 1922. The maximum compensation of $7,500 under the original award of the commission .was to be paid in weekly instalments of $8. Pursuant to that award the insurer paid the weekly compensation until July 15, 1925, when petitioner remarried. Shortly thereafter, in accordance with a de termination of the industrial…