Sauvain v. Battelle

Citations

• 100 Kan. 468
• 164 P. 1086
• 1917 Kan. LEXIS 354

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Compensation Act — Evidence—Findings. The evidence examined, and held to support the findings.</p> <p>2. Same — Incapacity—Conclusion of Lato. On the theory _of total incapacity ás found, the conclusion of law as to the sum allowed was correct.</p> <p>3. Compensation Act — Basis of Plaintiff’s Recovery. The cause was tried by the court, and the findings are convincing that the judgment rested on the theory of total incapacity. Held, that an expression in one of the findings indicating partial incapacity only does not, in the situation presented by the record, work such inconsistency as to require reversal.</p> <p>4. Same — Injured Workman — Obtaining More Remunerative Work. Rule followed that a workman partially or totally incapacitated is not to be denied compensation on account of obtaining work' even more remunerative which he has the physical ability to do.</p>