Yocom v. Pierce

STERNBERG, Justice.

This is an appeal from a final order of the Graves Circuit Court affirming the opinion and award of the Workmen s Compensation Board, which granted claimant Ernestine Pierce compensation for a permanent partial disability.

Mrs. Pierce is 48 years of age and had worked for the Merit Clothing Company for almost 30 years. On February 6, 1973, while working at her job as a ticket operator, she suffered a nervous breakdown and has not been able to work from that date. The employer is a clothing manufacturing company. Mrs. Pierce worked on a production job that required much…