Blevins v. State Compensation Commissioner

Fox, Judge:

The employer, Carbon Fuel Company, appeals from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board entered on the 7th of October, 1944, affirming an order of the State Compensation Commissioner, made on the 17th day of August, 1944,'by which claimant was awarded compensation for life upon the basis of a permanent total disability.

Claimant was injured by a slate fall on July 27, 1938. He went to a hospital five days later, and was there examined by Dr. J. Ross Hunter, whose report on his examination contains the following:

“His chief complaint was pain in his left loin. There was no…