Gardner v. Industrial Accident Commission

Petitioner, E. A. Gardner, seeks to review a decision, on rehearing, of the Industrial Accident Commission wherein petitioner was awarded certain compensation on account of a permanent disability sustained by him following an industrial injury. Two petitions have been filed, which have been consolidated.

In said decision on rehearing it was found that the total present permanent disability suffered by petitioner amounted to 58¾ per cent but, inasmuch as petitioner had sustained a prior permanent disability amounting to 12 per cent, said 12 per cent was deducted from the total of 58¾ per cent.…