WILLIAMS BROTHERS CORPORATION AND ZURICH GENERAL ACCIDENT AND LIABILITY INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.,
v.
RUFUS MCAMY HICKS AND EMPIRE A. HICKS, HIS WIFE, AND FLORIDA INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
WILLIAMS BROTHERS CORPORATION AND ZURICH GENERAL ACCIDENT AND LIABILITY INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.,
RUFUS MCAMY HICKS AND EMPIRE A. HICKS, HIS WIFE, AND FLORIDA INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
154 Fla. 44
Florida Supreme Court (1944)
Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 16 So. 2d 432
Cited by 6 cases
Opinion of the Court
Judgment affirmed.
Additional attorney’s fee in the sum of $150.00 for services in circuit and Supreme Court to be recovered by appel-lees from appellants is awarded.
So ordered.
BUFORD, C. J., BROWN, THOMAS and SEBRING, JJ., concur.
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