Cudahy Packing Co. v. Ward

Cudahy Packing Company and its insurance carrier appeal from the judgment of the Circuit Court of Scott County reversing the decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission and reinstating the order of the attorney referee.

It was stipulated that Mrs. Myrtle Ward, claimant and appellee, while working for the Cudahy Packing Company, sustained an injury to her right hand in June 1957, as the result of dropping some boxes on her hand. The attorney referee found that the appellee had sustained permanent partial disability of thirty-three and one-third per cent loss of use of her right hand.

The…