Applehans v. Butner

The opinion o£ the court was delivered by

Robb, J.:

This is an appeal in a workmen’s compensation proceeding from the trial court’s holding that an award for temporary total loss of use of a scheduled member is not subject to review and modification under our statutes, which reversed the examiner and commissioner (hereafter referred to as director) who had previously held to the contrary.

A very brief statement of salient facts appears to be necessary in order to make clear a somewhat unusual case. Claimant, who was a meat wrapper for respondent Butner, testified that on November 27, 1959, while…