Schwartz v. Mount Vernon-Woodberry Mills, Inc.

Mr. Associate Justice Stukes

delivered the unanimous Opinion of the Court:

In this workmen’s compensation case both employee and employer appealed from the award of the Industrial Commission and the Circuit Court overruled that of the employee and favorably acted upon that of the employer by undertaking to reduce the award for disfigurement from $2,000.00 to $500.00. Thereupon the claimant prosecuted this appeal from the judgment of the court, wherein the employer is alone the respondent.

After long experience in textile work, claimant entered the night employ of respondent and on his second…