Citations
- 302 Ill. 38
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Mr. Justice Carter
delivered the opinion of the court:
It is agreed by the parties that Henry Springer, the claimant, was an employee of plaintiff in error, Swift & Co., at East St. Louis, on October 21, 1918, and on that date received an injury which arose out of and in the course of the employment, of which' plaintiff in error had notice, and that demand for compensation was made within the time required by law, and that the employer and employee were both under the Workmen’s Compensation act. The claimant is a single man, having no children under the age of sixteen years, and his average wage for the year preceding his injury was $1248, or $24 a week., After a hearing the arbitrator found that the claimant had been furnished by plaintiff in error first aid, medical, surgical and hospital services, and that he was entitled to receive from the company $12 per week for three weeks, that being the period of temporary total incapacity for work, and the further sum of $12 per week for a period of fifty weeks, as provided by paragraph (