Lee Way Motor Freight, Inc. v. Highfill

McINERNEY, Justice.

There is presented here for review an award of the State Industrial Court allowing the respondent, Glen Highfill, claimant below, ten per cent disability to the right leg. For convenience parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court. The sole question involved here for review is the sufficiency of the medical evidence to sustain the award.

Claimant prior to the alleged accident had a congenital disability consisting of a knot on his right knee, medically described as Osgood-Shotter’s disease. He injured the knee while in junior high school and was required…