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GOLDSAMT v. INDUSTRIAL COM.

No. 55855.

93 Ill.2d 115 (1982)

442 N.E.2d 831

JAKOB GOLDSAMT, Appellant, v. THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION et al. (Hart, Schaffner & Marx, Appellee).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed October 22, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jordan Teplitz, of Jordan Teplitz, Ltd., of Chicago, for appellant.

Braun, Lynch, Smith & Strobel, Ltd., of Chicago (Thomas P. Smith, of counsel), for appellee.

Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE UNDERWOOD delivered the opinion of the court:

The 59-year-old claimant in this workmen's compensation case, Jakob Goldsamt, immigrated in 1950 to this country from Poland. He had served in the Polish army, been taken prisoner and subsequently interned in Hungarian and Austrian camps until freed in 1945 at the close of World War II. Claimant never married and apparently believed his family had been killed by the Nazis. In 1953 he...

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