United States Steel Corporation v. Baker

GOODWYN, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. It is here on certiorari from the circuit court of Jefferson County, Bessemer Division.

The parties have' stipulated as follows: While the plaintiff’s intestate was employed in defendant’s mine, he sustained a compensable accident resulting in a 35%' perma nent partial disability from silicosis. Under a court-approved settlement the employer agreed to pay the employee $18.85 a week for 300 weeks making a total claim of $5,-646. Payments of compensation were made from the date of the employee’s injury in December, 1954, until his death on…