Strickland v. Baugh & Sons Co.

Opinion by Rhodes, J.,

As the result of an accident in the course of his employment on September 17, 1936, claimant suffered certain injuries to his left hand, which were described in a compensation agreement of September 30, 1936, as “traumatic amputation of left middle finger through middle of middle phalanx, amputation of ring finger through middle of middle phalanx.” The agreement called for payment of compensation for fifty weeks at $13.66 per week, based upon an agreed weekly wage of $21.01. There is no dispute that under the compensation agreement claimant was paid the fifty weeks for…