Contractors Service & Supply Company v. Chism

STEWART, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment affirming an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board which found appellee, J. W. Chism, to be seventy-five per cent permanently and partially disabled as a result of a back injury he received in the course of his employment with appellant, Contractors Service & Supply Company. Chism filed a cross-appeal contending that the Board should have awarded him total permanent disability benefits.

Chism injured his back on February 22, 1954, while in the act of lifting a box of steel bits weighing about forty pounds. The pain was of such severity that…