Knobbe v. Industrial Commission

Where there is credible evidence that respondent sustained an injury to his right leg sufficiently severe so as to be followed by serious consequences rendering him incapable of working, is still causing him to suffer pain, and the prognosis is a likelihood of a resulting amputation of the leg at the ankle or knee or possibly at the hip joint, the Industrial Commission is warranted in holding that the healing period, as that term is used in the statutes, has not passed even though the evidence is opposed by very strong testimony that the condition is at present fixed and that the permanent…