Commonwealth, Department of Economic Security v. Harris

CLAY, Commissioner.

In this workmen’s compensation case the Board found the employee to be 25-percent permanently partially disabled. On appeal by the employee to the circuit court, the latter found the employee to be 100-percent temporarily totally disabled. The trial court’s opinion was that the Board had not made sufficient allowance for the employee’s psychotic condition.

The employee had strained his back. After a week in the hospital he returned to work, but subsequently quit because of alleged low-back pains. He was examined *432by several doctors, including a neurosurgeon, and the substance…