United States Casualty Co. v. Matthews

Plaintiff in error excepts to a judgment oí the superior court sustaining an award of the industrial commission in favor of a widow, under the workmen’s compensation law. It is not disputed that the husband, on November 26, 1924, sustained a severe physical injury, arising out of and in the course of the employment covered by the insurance, by which his ankle was dislocated and certain ligaments torn. It appears tlipt prior to the injury he was in vigorous health; that the injury caused much continued swelling of the ankle, pain, and loss of sleep, resulting in an enfeebled and weakened…