Broadus v. Industrial Commission

STEVENS, Presiding Judge.

Billie L. Broadus, the petitioner herein, had been employed by the respondent employer for approximately two years when on 13 December 1965 she sustained a compensable back injury. At that time, she was 43 years of age, a person of limited education, a person without special skills or training, married and the mother of three children. At the hearing held in 1971, she testified that the youngest child who had been working left home approximately a month before the hearing. At the time of her injury, her average monthly wage was $262.45. She employed counsel for the…