Case ID: ill-ct-cl_8/html/0221-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(No. 2209
    Carl Bender, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.
    
      Opinion filed November 13, 1934.
    
    Harold C. Sewell and Alexander J. Strom, for claimant.
    Otto Keener, Attorney General; John Kasserman, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.
   Me. Justice Yantis

delivered the opinion of the court:

Under a stipulation filed in this cause, it appears that on or about August 28, 1932, claimant was employed by the State of Illinois as a repair and maintenance man on State Highway No. 5, at a point about five miles west of Belvidere, and that he was receiving compensation at the rate of Thirty Dollars ($30.00) per week; that while wheeling a wheelbarrow full of cement from the cement mixer to the road, he struck a projection, causing him to fall, twisting his left leg and knee and being struck by the handle of the wheelbarrow, resulting in laceration of the ligaments of the knee; that immediately after the injury, the knee was placed in a cast; that claimant was compelled to use crutches and unable to do any work and temporarily and totally disabled for a period of approximately five months; further, that claimant was employed only a part of the working days in the year (about 50%), and the compensation would be determined under Section 10 E of the Compensation Act; that claimant is the father of and supporting four children, all under the age of sixteen years; that claimant, under Paragraph 145, Section J, would receive $14.00 per week by virtue of having four children at the age stated, for a period of twenty (20) weeks, or a total of Two Hundred Eighty Dollars ($280.00).

Under this stipulation, no disagreement as to facts exists. Claimant was an employee of the State; was injured while engaged in and in the course of his employment, and such employment was within the purview of the Workmen’s Compensation Act. The only question, therefore, is a determination of the amount of an award that should be allowed.

Under the stipulation of facts and the statutory provisions applying in such case, an award on a basis of $14.00 per week for a period of twenty (20) weeks, or a total of Two Hundred Eighty Dollars ($280.00), is hereby allowed.