Gunnels v. Industrial Commission

On January 14, 1963, the superior court of Cook County entered an order in a certiorari proceeding restraining the petitioner, Jesse Gunnels, from proceeding with a petition in this cause before the Industrial Commission of Illinois seeking a penalty for underpayment of compensation under section 19 (k) of the Workmen’s Compensation Act. We have heretofore granted Gunnels’s petition for writ of error to review this order.

This case must be considered in the light of the prior proceedings before the Industrial Commission and the court. In 1959 the petitioner, Gunnels, received an award from an…