Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-07-31 | Page 12 | Board Given Time for Filing Briefs

BOARD GIVEN TIME FOR FILING BRIEFS The state supreme court granted the Salt Sal Lake City school board until September 8 to file briefs in its it protests protests pro pro- pro tests against the te award made to a former school schol teacher by the state industrial commission a few months month ago when a hearing was wa held Monday on the boards beards bards bard's writ wrt of certiorari The Te board Is i protesting the payment payment pay ment of compensation to Miss Mi Helen Kimball Kimbal a teacher at the te Lafayette school who h has been paralyzed according ac according ac- ac ac cording to her contention since twisting twist twist- twit ing log her back in keeping leeping from falling from a stepladder on which she was wa standing to decorate a n Christmas tree tee at the school schol December 12 1932 Miss Mi Kimball KImbal was granted compensation aton that tat it i is i estimated will wi total 2000 if i she lives Jives to an average age The Te board boad in making maIng its it protests against the award aard pointed to the dis dissenting di dis- dis seating opinion of Commissioner O. O F. F McShane in which he said there therewa was wa no DO direct proof prof Miss MIs Kimballs Kimball's injuries were due to t her near Dear fail fali from the The Te evidence was wa conflicting he said and showed that tat the paralysis might have been due to toa toa toa a number of other causes including a blood clot cot on the spine which was wa discovered in i an operation performed alter after ter the paralysis developed Mr McShane had previously been misquoted as a saying that th thern paralysis did not develop in th the patient patent until the next day after the ladder accident and that in the meantime she had gone to a motion moton picture show helped her mother with wih housework and ad done several other things ting in which she might have twi twisted ed her spine