85 N.J.L. 409 | N.J. | 1914
The opinion of the court was delivered by
The respondent’s brief and the evidence returned in response to the rule show that the only basis for finding the disability total is in the fact that the petitioner is seventy-three years old, and a plumber and steamfitter; the injury would have been less in a case of a younger man since the bones would have united, and less in case of a man who could do his work in a sitting posture than in the ease of the defendant whose work required him to be on his feet.
The trial judge erred in awarding compensation for four hundred weeks; it should have been for one hundred and seventy-five weeks only. The judgment must be reversed, but without costs.