W. M. Ritter Lumber Co. v. Perry
W. M. Ritter Lumber Co. v. Perry
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
In this case W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, a corporation, was the employer. Employer’s Liability Assurance Corporation was the insurance carrier and Robert Perry, an employee of the lumber company, was claimant before the Industrial Commission.
Perry was injured on April 21, 1922, and temporarily was totally disabled. On May 13,1922, he entered into
This compensation was regularly paid until 300 weeks from the date of the injury had passed. After-wards and on December 15,1928, the Commission issued an award requiring the employer and the insurance carrier to continue these payments for a period of 300 weeks beginning on February 15, 1928, subject to credit by the .number of weekly payments already made. In other words the Commission was of opinion that the claimant was entitled to be paid for 300 weeks and not to payments which should end when 300 weeks from the date of the injury had elapsed.
From this it appears that the same question is here presented for determination that arose in the case of Raven Red Ash Coal Corp. et al. v. Henry Absher, this day decided. See ante, page 332, 149 S. E. 541. For
The judgment and award of the Industrial Commission will be reversed and the case dismissed, and it-is so ordered.
Reversed.
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