Notch v. Victory Granite Co.

Yetka, Justice.

Certiorari on the relation of Victory Granite Company, employer, and Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Company, its insurer, to review a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission awarding permanent total disability benefits to Norbert E. Notch, employee, under the occupational disease provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act. We affirm.

Employee, 68 at the date of the hearing, took up the trade of stone cutting at the age of 17, and after 5 years, which included an apprenticeship, was a “full-fledged cutter.” Due to the economic circumstances of the depression 1…