Jones v. Purity Textiles Corp.

BROADDUS, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation case and involves an appeal by the claimant, Fannie Bell Jones, from the judgment of the Circuit Court reversing an award of the Industrial Commission. The Commission had awarded the claimant compensation, based upon a permanent partial disability of the body as a whole of 12}/¿% or SO weeks at a compensation rate of $26.66 per week or $1,333, and $492.15 for medical aid, making a total of $1,825.15.

The evidence shows that claimant was 52 years of age in December of 1956,.and weighed 178 pounds. She was in good health prior to December 3, 1956,…