Frieders v. Estate of Frieders

The following opinion was filed March 6, 1923:

Owen, J.

At the time of the injury to the plaintiff he and his employer, the deceased uncle, were concededly subject to the provisions of the workmen’s. compensation act. Immediately upon the injury, therefore, a liability was imposed by law upon the uncle, now deceased, to make compensation for such injuries according to the rates and schedules provided in that act. The amount of the liability thus imposed could have been quite easily and definitely determined. For the present purposes it is quite safe to1 say that it would not have exceeded…