Walden v. State Compensation Commissioner

Litz, Judge:

This is an appeal from a final order of the State Compensation Commissioner refusing to award claimant, H. H. Walden, further compensation and closing his claim.

Walden bas been paid compensation for 77-1/7 weeks, but asserts that lie is permanently and totally disabled. February 12, 1929, while employed by Barium Reduction Corporation, South Charleston, he inhaled hydrogen-sulphide gas, which rendered him unconscious, and, as he contends, caused him to fall and strike his head against a concrete curb, thereby inflicting a permanent injury to his brain. Immediately after the…