Reck v. Robert E. McKee General Contractors, Inc.

SADLER, Justice.

The defendants as appellants complain on appeal of a judgment against them in favor of the plaintiff (appellee) for a workmen’s compensation award for partial permanent disability of the body as a whole rather than confining the award to the statutory amount provided for injury to a scheduled member, in this case injury to the left leg at, or between, the knee and ankle.

The plaintiff (claimant) was first employed by the defendant-employer with the classification of an ironworker foreman on September 19, 1950, though he neither acted as a foreman, nor was he paid as a foreman…