Metropolitan Dining Room v. Jensen

In 1924, Clausine Jensen, an employee of the Metropolitan Dining Room in Omaha, was injured and was awarded compensation by the district court for Douglas county, under the provisions of -the workmen’s compensation act, for permanent total disability, the sum of $10.67 a week for 300 weeks and $7.20 a week thereafter for the remainder of her life or until disability shall end. This suit was brought by the employer, in 1932, to modify the award on the ground that the disability due solely to the injury no longer exists. The employer alleged that Mrs. Jensen was no longer disabled as a result…