Court Opinion

ID: 3893306
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 09:24:11.706031+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:24:40.756681
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* Error to award compensation in excess of that fixed by statute, see annotation in L.R.A., 1916A, 263; 28 R.C.L., 823; 6 R.C.L. Supp., 1763.
The only question for decision is the amount petitioner, Wilson, is entitled to recover from the Coal Company, as a result of an accident by which his leg was broken.
The accident occurred on January 12, 1926, and the case was heard by the trial court on September 22, 1926. Wilson was temporarily totally disabled for twenty-six weeks, or until July 13, 1926, and was temporarily partially disabled after that date. The physician, who set his leg, testified that a perfect union had been effected, and that, in all probability, his ability to work would be restored to normal in about twelve months from the date of the accident.
Wilson testified that his earnings prior to the accident had been $16.50 per week, and the point is made that it was not shown that his weekly earnings for fifty-two weeks preceding the accident had been that sum. Wilson and the Coal Company, however, agreed upon that sum, and the Coal Company paid him $8.25 per week, or fifty per cent of his average weekly earnings, as provided by subsection (a) of section 28 of the Compensation *Page 66 
Act, for the first thirteen weeks, and tendered him a check for a like amount for the following thirteen weeks, upon condition that he execute a release from further liability, which was declined. In these circumstances, we find there was some evidence as to his earnings, and that he is entitled to recover for twenty-six weeks at $8.25 per week, or $214.50, less $107 paid, and a store account of $93.72, leaving $13.78 for which he is entitled to judgment.
With respect to compensation for temporary partial disability, subsequent to July 13, 1926, we find that he is entitled to recover $5 per week, the minimum sum provided in subsection (b) of section 28 of the Act, not to exceed, however, two hundred and seventy-four weeks.
The act provides that such compensation shall not be paid for more than three hundred weeks, and this period should be reduced by the twenty-six weeks, for which he was paid compensation for temporary total disability, since the act only contemplates compensation for a maximum period of three hundred weeks.
The trial court entered a judgment for one hundred weeks temporary total disability and fifty weeks temporary partial disability.
We find no evidence to support this judgment, and it will be reversed and the case remanded. Upon the remand judgment will be entered in favor of Wilson for $13.78 and for $5 a week for the period that he was temporarily partially disabled, subsequent to July 13, 1926, not to exceed two hundred and seventy-four weeks. If Wilson is still temporarily partially disabled when the case is heard, judgment will be entered for the amount then due, and the company will pay him $5 per week *Page 67 
until two hundred and seventy-four payments have been made, or until his disability is removed.
The costs of the appeal will be paid, two-thirds by the company and one-third by Wilson. Other costs will be adjudged by the trial court. *Page 68