Jones v. Murdoch Center

PHILLIPS, Judge.

The sole question presented is whether the Full Commission erred in awarding plaintiff compensation for permanent total disability under G.S. 97-29. That plaintiff is in fact totally and permanently incapable of holding any gainful employment because of the compensable injury sustained is overwhelmingly established by the evidence and defendant does not argue otherwise. What defendant contends is that since the injury was to her back and disability to the back is included in the compensation schedule for specific bodily members and organs contained in G.S. 97-31 that her…