Pavel v. Hughes Brothers, Inc.

This is a workmen’s compensation case which plaintiff brings here for trial de novo under the established rules.

The trial court allowed compensation for temporary total disability up to March 20, 1957; it held that plaintiff had a 50 percent permanent partial disability to the body as a whole entitling him to compensation for a period of 239 weeks; it allowed certain medical expenses and denied others, and denied an attorney’s fee; and it held that plaintiff’s election to forego further surgery was reasonable.

On appeal here the defendant presents the contention that the original award of the…