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JOHNSON TREE EXPERTS v. INDUS. COM.

No. 43645.

51 Ill.2d 289 (1972)

281 N.E.2d 668

NELS JOHNSON TREE EXPERTS, INC., Appellant, v. THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION et al. — (Dallas Wallace, Appellee.)

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed March 30, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

PETERSON, LOWRY, RALL, BARBER & ROSS, of Chicago (ELROY C. SANDQUIST, JR. and RUSSELL M. PELTON, JR., of counsel), for appellant.

EDWARD J. KIONKA, of Belleville, and KENNETH S. LEWIS, of Chicago, for appellee.

Judgment affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court.

The only question which is put by this appeal is whether the finding of the Industrial Commission that the employee had sustained a 75% permanent loss of the use of the right leg was contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence.

On January 2, 1968, Dallas Wallace, who had been employed as a foreman and tree trimmer for the Nels Johnson Tree Experts, Inc. for ten years, fell...

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