Walker

While employed in the mill of plaintiff in error, Walker, defendant in error, suffered accidental injury by having his right hand cut by a trim saw, which he was at the time operating. He claimed an allowance as for partial and permanent disability under the terms of the last two provisions of section 1, subd. 7, of the Workmen’s Compensation Act of .Alaska (Session Laws of Alaska 1923, p. 235). The employer disputed the claim as made, and insisted that the allowance could not be for a greater sum than fixed for the loss of a hand in the schedule contained in the act. In its answer to the complaint of the employee, plaintiff in error offered to allow judgment to be taken for the sum of $2,340, less $218.40 which had been theretofore paid the claimant.

The jury, sitting at the trial, answered the special questions submitted to them by the District Judge as follows :

Judgment was entered against plaintiff in error for the sum of $4,852, with costs; the principal sum representing 65 per cent, of a maximum of $7,800, which would have been recoverable by the employee had he suffered total and permanent disability as provided in that portion of the Compensation Act first referred…