Ching Hon Yet ex rel. Carden v. See Sang Co.

Citations

• 24 Haw. 731
• 1919 Haw. LEXIS 52

Syllabus

<p>Workmen’s Compensation Act — compensation to injured employee.</p> <p>Where an employee is accidentally injured resulting in temporary total disability and permanent partial disability the injured employee should be awarded sixty per cent, of his average weekly wage for the period of his total disability and after reaching the stage of convalescence where he ceased to be totally disabled but remained in a state of permanent partial disability he should receive for an additional definite number of weeks fifty per cent, of his average weekly wage.</p> <p>Same — sufficiency of notice of claim for compensation.</p> <p>Where the notice served by the employee upon the employer contains a statement that the injury consists of the “loss of four fingers of left hand” it sufficiently describes the nature of the injury. The effect of the injury upon the employee became a matter of proof.</p> <p>Same — same.</p> <p>Where at the trial the evidence established that the employee had by reason of the accident lost the use of his hand it was not error for the court to award the injured employee compen-' sation for the loss of the use of his hand.</p> <p>Appeal and Error — appeal from award of industrial accident hoard to circuit court — proceedings.</p> <p>Where the employer or the insurance carrier appeals from an award made by the industrial accident hoard to the circuit court the statute contemplates the trial of the cause ele novo in the appellate court before a jury, if a jury is demanded; otherwise before the court without the intervention of a jury.</p>