Saxton v. Industrial Commission

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Winnebago County sustaining the Industrial Commission’s affirmance of a workmen’s compensation award.

The facts are undisputed. On September 27, 1964, claimant Carl Nelson Powell, then a tenth-grade student employed part time by a Texaco gas station, while driving his car in the course of his employment collided with another car, sustaining a fracture of the occipital bone of the skull and fractures of both the right and left mandibles (jaw bones). Claimant was permitted to return to school on October 30, 1964, but was told by his…