West Side Coal & Mining Co. v. Industrial Commission

On a hearing before an arbitrator an award was entered in favor of the applicant. An appeal was perfected to the Industrial Commission, and while the appeal was pending, and before final hearing, the applicant died, and by agreement his widow, Nannie May Shoemaker, and his children, Clyde, Joel, Viola, Ellis, Elizabeth and Maude Shoemaker, were substituted and the cause proceeded to final hearing in their names as petitioners. The commission heard additional evidence and entered an award in favor of the petitioners in the sum of $15 per week for 266% weeks, having found that the injury…