Erie Railroad v. Callaway

*33The opinion of the court was delivered by

Swayze, J.

Luther Callaway, an employe of the Erie Railroad Company, was injured in 1912. Proceedings under the "Workmen’s Compensation act of 1911 resulted in a determination in his favor by the Essex Common Pleas on January 6th, 1913. The determination was that judgment be entered in his favor “for compensation amounting to $5 weekly payment to begin September 7th, 1912, and to continue during the period of such disability, not, however, beyond four hundred weeks.” This award pursued strictly the language of the statute. Pamph. L. 1911, p. 137, § 11b.…