Consolidated Coal Co. of St. Louis v. Industrial Commission

Tom Goyak, a coal miner employed by the Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis in its coal mine at Mt. Olive, was caught between coal cars and the face of the rib on October 17, 1922, and severely injured. He filed his claim for compensation with the Industrial Commission, and on June 12, 1925, an arbitrator made him an award of $14 a week for 267-6/7 weeks and thereafter a pension of $25 a month for life, finding that $1834 had already been paid on account of the injury. On review the commission sustained the award. A writ of certiorari from the circuit court of Macoupin county was quashed…