Bateman Manufacturing Co. v. Smith
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On certiorari to Camden Pleas. Petition under Workmen’s Compensation act. The facts were thus found by the trial judge: “The petitioner was working in the polishing department setting a radiator and while engaged in his duties in the employ of the said Bateman Manufacturing Company in setting the said radiator it fell on him and broke both bones of his right leg and crushed and dislocated the ankle of said right leg, and also caused a shock to the nervous system which has…
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On certiorari to Camden Pleas. Petition under Workmen’s Compensation act. The facts were thus found by the trial judge: “The petitioner was working in the polishing department setting a radiator and while engaged in his duties in the employ of the said Bateman Manufacturing Company in setting the said radiator it fell on him and broke both bones of his right leg and crushed and dislocated the ankle of said right leg, and also caused a shock to the nervous system which has enfeebled and aged the said petitioner and caused a total disability, permanent in quality, so that the petitioner will…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Swayze, J.
The respondent’s brief and the evidence returned in response to the rule show that the only basis for finding the disability total is in the fact that the petitioner is seventy-three years old, and a plumber and steamfitter; the injury would have been less in a case of a younger man since the bones would have united, and less in case of a man who could do his work in a sitting posture than in the ease of the defendant whose work required him to be on his feet. *411We think the trial judge has confused the rule for compensation nuclei section 1 of…
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