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<br />J,=onda�T, February 26t". , 1934
<br />Public forks on the 20th. , day of February, 1933 and subsequently thereto and until
<br />the e xecut ion of this agreement.
<br />°'+itness our hands and seals this 19th. , day of February, 1934.
<br />Board of Public Forks, City of
<br />''ouch Bend, Indiana.
<br />By Dick Johnson, Pres.
<br />Bte ve Spychalski
<br />Witness to Sigma Lure :
<br />George R. Schock.
<br />(The above agreement returned from Industrial Board of the S'tate of Indiana, marked
<br />"Approved,, T arch 3, 1934, Ira 1.T. Snouffer."
<br />The following resolution was adopted by the Board, upon the recommendation of
<br />Citv Attorney, I. S. Romig:
<br />RESOL:?ITION
<br />�I TO PAY CMTENSATION 117 r Al -AGES TO ST a SP7C?�T^LSK.I
<br />hereas, on the 2Qth., day of February, 1933, the -boerd of Public Forks of the
<br />E'1Vil �itT of �'out'n fiend, hid under its supervision e.nd direction. a. subsi.d.ia.ry a.nd
<br />Depertment of the said .Civil "ity of South Bend., to -wit: The street Department of the
<br />sa id U it y. nd.
<br />Whereas, on the date aforesaid., the said- Street Department he as nne of its
<br />employees on the reg7ular payroll of said Department and Board of Public 'vvorks, one
<br />• iI Steve Spychalski, resid_inp at 416 E=-ouch Grant=treet, in the State, County a.nd `pity
<br />aforesaid, rho was employed as a laborer and recd)ived the average weekly ��rage of
<br />Twenty-four Dollars- ( 24.00) ,arid
<br />l Whereas, an said date, �::Ylile said Steve Spychialski was regularly employed in
<br />the course of his duties as a laborer and was loading: cinders with a work crew at the
<br />`.'eter+orks Plumping Station on South Olive Street in said City under the direction
<br />pych^lski
<br />of the said Street liepa.rtment end Board of Public `+gorks , he, the said. Steve Srwes injured in the follor- !ng manner, to-r-it : ci nd ers <-nd refuse from a cinder dump
<br />which he helping to reduce were blown into and upon the right eye of said Steve
<br />Spy; the lsk i , a nd
<br />• Whereas the wound and irritation caused thereby pra.dually reduced the siph.t
<br />of .Seio. eye until the eyesight was entirely lost to said optic nerve, and
<br />+'=hereas, the superintend nt and foreman of seid Street Department and members
<br />of the Boerd of Public 'corks 2t sei d. time were Pware of such injury end the subsequent
<br />loss of the eyesight of the right eye of said �Iteve SpyrbaTski, and
<br />",hereas Steve Spychelski «es suffering from irritation and inflam, n in this
<br />rig'-t eye for several days prior to February 20, 1933, as a result of infection sus-
<br />te fined while not employed bIT the said Itreet Depe rtment and that the •accident set out
<br />in the foregoing was not the sole causation of the loss of the sight in said optic but
<br />was f n aggravation thereof, and
<br />Whereas, if the sai(' accident on lebrurr7T 24th., 1933, had been the sole causa-
<br />tion of the loss of said eyesight, sei(9 "Iteve Spychelski t-nuld be entitled to fifty
<br />five percent (55""/,) of his weekly wa.peof ftenty-four 0'24.00) �'oliars or Thirteen
<br />rollers and tvrnety cents (L3.20) for ?-period_ of one }un'red and fifty weeks or a
<br />total- of 111ineteen Hundred end- -6iFhty (1980.00) 1Jolle.rs, if awerded by the Industrial
<br />Board of Ind ie.n a, and
<br />Whereas the said Steve Spychalski and the Civil City of South Bend, represented
<br />by the Bo-^rd. of Public Works, in vie,u. of the partial responsibility to thesaid City
<br />for the loss of said eyesight in s^-id Spychalski opic are cesir(hus of effecting a
<br />11 cash settlement for all damages incurred in the course of his employment on said d_a_te
<br />of this resolution and' the sac Steve Spychalski and' the said Board. of Public Forks
<br />have agreed. on a cash WITement within ten days of the sum of P900.000Nine Hundred
<br />Dollars) in one p,, ny ent i„ ithin ten days from the date of thjis Kesolut-on in addition
<br />to medical services incurred for the treatment of said Steve Spychalski, statements
<br />of 7,-h_ich ere now filed with the Clerk of said Board of Public Works.
<br />`or, tr:erefore, be it resolver bn -this-=27th., day of February, 1934, by this
<br />Board of Public 'V`orks and'. the undersigns^ members, of the said �itZ7 of South Bend,
<br />thet the said compromise e_nd cabh settlement by ellowed by this Board as a valid claim
<br />pnd tl�at the Controller of the City of South Bend by autroru-zed to pay the said Steve
<br />Snvchelski from the fund for -purposes, the sum of Dine Iund.red (,900.00) Dollars in
<br />;; one payment Pnd the Clerk of this Foard. be Puthorized to spread th .s resolution upon
<br />• the records and minutes of this Board and that a stipulation be entered into by the
<br />li President of thi. s Board. and said Steve �=pychalski and apt oved by the City Attorney
<br />I� of the City of South Lend, to be for,,x arded to the Industrial Board of the State of
<br />!il Inc; Tana , for pp -Drove 1 and: confirmation.
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