Potocan v. Hamilton Coal & Mercantile Co.

*327The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The plaintiff sustained a double rupture and other alleged injuries in his employer’s coal mine: The employer paid him compensation at the rate of $15 per week for ten weeks, and then quit paying on the assumption that plaintiff had fully recovered.

Plaintiff applied to the district court for the appointment of an arbitrator. This was granted. Lay and professional witnesses testified and were cross-examined by the litigants before the arbitrator, who found that plaintiff was totally incapacitated as the result of an accident while he was…