Hughes v. State Compensation Commissioner

Calhoun, Judge:

This case is before tlie Court on appeal from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board dated May 20, 1960, which, reversed an order of the State Compensation Commissioner dated January 15, 1960. The basic question presented by this appeal relates to the action of the board in undertaking to give a retroactive effect to its order.

In seeking a further permanent partial disability award, John M. Hughes, who will be referred to herein as “the claimant”, obtained a reopening of his claim *630on May 26, 1958. Previously he had been granted and paid a fifty per cent permanent…