Barnes v. Ezrine Tire Co.

This appeal is the latest in a trilogy of cases concerning the “serious disability” provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Law enacted by Chapter 322 of the Laws of 1965 codified as subsections 3a and 4a of § 36 of Article 101 of the Code (1967 Cum. Supp.). In King Furniture Manufacturing Co. v. Thompson, 248 Md. 682, 238 A. 2d 231 (1968), we sustained the constitutionality of the added provisions. Prior thereto, in Consolidated Engineering Co. v. Cooper, 246 Md. 610, 228 A. 2d 823 (1967), we had held that subsections 36(3) and 36(3a) should be read together and that one award was to be…