Neault v. Parker-Young Co.

The trial court had before it the inquiry how long the plaintiff would be disabled. By the act payments are to continue for three hundred weeks “if total or partial disability continues during such period” (s. 24), and upon a petition the award is to be a lump sum for the accrued and prospective weekly payments (s. 27). The plaintiff’s position that he is not required to act reasonably in effort to overcome his disability, is untenable. Reasonable conduct being that ordinarily exercised by men in general, all persons who are hurt are expected to take proper care of themselves. If they fail to…