Special Indemnity Fund v. Urban

In my opinion, the combination of the old and new injuries, provided for in the Special Indemnity Fund Act, 85 O. S. Supp. 1947 §172, is not for the purpose of adding together the per centum of disability of each of said injuries so that the total of the disabilities may be translated into the degree of permanent partial disability to “the body as a whole.” I think it was intended that the old and new injuries should be considered by the Industrial Commission in combination so that the relation of the injuries, one to the other, and the effect of the old injury upon the new might be…