Huff v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner

Berry, Justice:

Ernest Huff, hereinafter referred to as claimant, appeals from a final order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board of July 30, 1973, which affirmed a ruling of the Commissioner on December 7, 1972, which held that the claimant’s award of 50% permanent partial disability fully compensated him for his injuries sustained in a slate fall in the employer’s coal mine. Claimant contends on this appeal that the Commissioner and the Appeal Board mistakenly determined that claimant’s subsequent back disability was not the result of the 1960 mine accident and further contends he is…