Weaver v. Wolfe (Emp. L.A. Corp.)

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

In this workmen’s compensation case we have for consideration the question: Is it proper to compute the weekly wage of an employee by multiplying his daily wage by 5% when the contract of hire provides that he cannot work more than 8 hours per day or 30 hours in any one week?

Paul James Weaver was killed June 23, 1934, while employed as an unskilled laborer by R. E. Wolfe at the Middletown airport. Wolfe had entered into a contract with the United States Government for the construction of a sanitary sewer, which contained a provision that “so far as practicable and…