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TWENTIETH CENTURY FUR., INC. v. LABOR & INDUS. R. A. BD.

No. 4961.

482 P.2d 151 (1971)

TWENTIETH CENTURY FURNITURE, INC. and First Insurance Co. of Hawaii, Ltd., Appellants, v. LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS APPEAL BOARD, State of Hawaii, and Gerald S. Morita, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

March 12, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hale H. Hitchcock, Honolulu (Cades, Schutte, Fleming & Wright, Honolulu, on the brief) for appellants.

P. Harrison Thurston, Deputy Atty. Gen., Dept. of Labor & Indus. Rel., State of Hawaii (Bertram T. Kanbara, Atty. Gen., State of Hawaii, Honolulu, on the brief), for appellees.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., MARUMOTO, ABE, and LEVINSON, JJ., and Circuit Judge LANHAM in place of KOBAYASHI, J., disqualified.

RICHARDSON, Chief Justice.

On May 7, 1966, Gerald S. Morita, aged 19, while performing his duties as an employee of appellant Twentieth Century Furniture, Inc., injured the thumb and forefinger of his right hand by cutting them with a power saw. At the time of the injury Morita was earning an average weekly wage of $56.00. The employer, through its insurance carrier began payment of a weekly benefit of $37.33, computed as...

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