The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-05-21
BOARD MAY PAY
TEACHERS WIDOW
Industrial Commission Re-
ports School Board Owes
Compensation.
AMOUNT SET AT $500

Mrs. MILFORD H. Eubank, widow of
the late Mckinley school manual
training instructor who died from in
,juries sustained in an accident while
at his work, will receive the sum of
$500 from the board of education
as compensation for the death of her
husband, payable at the rate of $l8
per month for the next 26 years.
That was the decision of the Wiscon-
sin Industrial commission in state
ment handed down by that body after
the facts in the Kenosha case were
placed before it. While the actual
order making the decision effective
has rot been received, this is expected
at once when the acknowledgement of
the school board is returned to the
commission at Madison with the COM
ment of the local board attached
The matter has been placed in the
hands of the school boards attorney,
Richard Cavanagh, and it is expected
that he will present certain stipula-
tions to the commission before it
draws up its final award, in which
several facts in the case will be asked
to be considered by the commission.
The school board will not dispute
any of the facts in the case of the
decision made by the commission. This
was announced by Attorney Cavanagh
when the matter was discussed before
the board of education. But there was
a doubt in his mind, he said, which
placed different light on the situa-
tion. The law presumes that every
woman is dependent aupon his husband
for a livelihood, whether she has an
income or not. In this case Mrs. Eu-
bank has been employed ever since
her marriage at local factory office
and has had an income, it was point
ed out. Whether the board should be
asked to give her the full amount
named in the decision in spite of the
fact that she has not been wholly de-
pendent upon her husbands income or
whether this fact should be taken into
consideration in the compensation
awarded, is the question which Attor-
ney Cavanagh will take to the indus
trial commission.
1t was the opinion of the assistant
city attorney, however, that the COM
mission in the face of precedent would
award the full amount and not take
Into consideration any of these other
factors which enter this case.
The present case is the Arst of its
kind on record in the past twenty
years, according to officials of the
board of education. 1t has, been that
long since an employe of the school
board has been killed at his work. Inc
recent amended workmen's CON
pensation law enacted by the 1928
legislature outlined new provisions
which make the school board liable
In all cases of this kind It places all
employees of board of education un-
der the workmen's compensation act
1t is recalled that Wilford H. Eu-
bank was at work in the manual
training room of the Mckinley school
when he noticed that one of the stu
dents was attempting to cut large
board on a circular saw. Fearing that
The boy might injure himself in this
operation he took it himself. The
saw, in some unaccountable manner
buckled and hurled the timber back
striking him in the abdomen. That
was on Tuesday, April Ia, and on the
following Sunday the instructor died
aa a result of these internal injuries.