Winford Leo Evans v. Stearns-Roger Manufacturing Co., Employer and Standard Accident Insurance Co., Insurer

MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from an order of the trial court reducing an injured employee’s New Mexico workmen’s compensation award from 75 to 50 percent disability, and further ordering that the award be reduced to 25 percent disability if he refuses to undergo corrective surgery. The main question pre sented is whether the court was empowered, under New Mexico law, to compel claimant-appellant to submit to surgical treatment, medically termed a lam-inectomy, or in the alternative, to suffer a reduction in his award.

Appellant, Winfred Leo Evans, received an injury to his spine…