Hines v. Hendricks Canning Co.

Bussey, Justice:

This is a workmen’s compensation case wherein an injured employee appeals from an order of the circuit court reversing a compensation award of the Industrial Commission. At least tangentially there is involved the question of the sufficiency of the evidence to support the factual findings of the Commission and for this reason the facts are stated in the light most favorable to the claimant in accordance with the well established rule.

The claimant, a 16-year-old boy, was injured on August 5, 1972, when both of his hands were caught in machinery with the result of quite serious…