M. T. Reed Const. Co. v. Martin

On February 17, 1950, Robert E. Martin, fifty-nine years of age, a skilled carpenter earning $60 a week, sustained a break of the lower third of the right femur bone, arising out of and in the course of his employment with M. T. Reed Construction Company. He was hospitalized for about two months. Doctor G-. S. Daly was his physician and surgeon. He used skeletal traction to effect a union, and treated Martin until his discharge on August 29th following. At that time, the bone had healed but the leg was one-fourth of an inch shorter than before the injury. The doctor did not anticipate that…