Ward v. North American Rayon Corporation

This was a workmen’s compensation suit brought in the Chancery Court by complainant Ward against defendants North American Bay on Corporation and its insurance carrier, to recover compensation for permanent total disability alleged to have been caused Mm by accident and by occupational disease arising out of and in the course of his employment.

The Chancellor found complainant had sustained a 50% permanent partial disability to the body as a whole, and awarded him $32 per week for 200 weeks, together with all his medical and hospital expenses. Defendants filed a motion for a new trial, which…