Board of Education v. Industrial Commission

Separate awards, judgments and appeals were had in these two workmen’s compensation cases. Since the identical question of the propriety of a 50% penalty assessed against the employer was presented, they were consolidated for opinion following oral argument. In No. 40739 Otis Bledsoe was the employee and in No. 40742 Luther J. Collins was the employee. The Board of Education of the City of Chicago, employer in both cases, perfected these appeals.

The chronology of the Bledsoe case is as follows: On January 21, 1965, the employee sustained injuries while in the employ of the Board of Education.…