Case Name: John Voynik, petitioner, v. William Slezak, respondent
Court: New Jersey Department of Labor, Workmen's Compensation Bureau
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1924
Citations: 2 N.J. Misc. 1117
Docket Number: 
Parties: John Voynik, petitioner, v. William Slezak, respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 1117–1118

Head Matter:
New Jersey Department of Labor. Workmen's Compensation Bureau.
John Voynik, petitioner, v. William Slezak, respondent.
Injury to Leg Through Fall of Tree Stump — Leg Made Two Inches Shorter Thereby — Amount of Compensation Awarded.
On petition for compensation under Workmen's Compensation act. Determination of facts and rule for judgment.
Messrs. Stamler, Slamler & Koestler, for the petitioner.
Mr. Philip Cohen; for the respondent.

Opinion:
On the 24th day of March, 1924, the said John Voynik, the petitioner, while in the course o£ his employment, and while engaged with the respondent in excavating a hole in which to bury a large tree stump, under the direction of the respondent, the said tree stump fell upon the petitioner and respondent, causing the petitioner a fracture of his right leg above the knee joint, and as a result of said injury the petitioner's right leg was caused to become two inches shorter than his left leg, and he has sustained a fifty per cent, loss of the usefulness of his said right leg.
The .petitioner is entitled to compensation for temporary disability for seventeen (17) weeks at the rate of seventeen dollars ($17) per week, and for permanent disability for the fracture of Ms right leg for eighty-seven and one-half (87}4) weeks at the rate of seventeen dollars ($17) per week, said compensation commencing March 24th, 1924, and that the said petitioner is also entitled to the sum of three hundred and eighty-four dollars ($384) expended by him for doctors hospital's and medical bills in connection with his said injury.
That nothing has been paid to the petitioner by the respondent for compensation or medicine or doctor's bills That tire petitioner is entitled to costs in this proceeding.
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And it is further ordered that Stamler, Stamler & Koestler, the attorneys for tire petitioner, be and they a.re hereby allowed the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) as a counsel fee herein, which said sum is to be paid by the respondent and included in the taxed costs against the respondent.
Ci-iakles E. Cohex,
Deputy Commissioner.