Adkins v. Caney Branch Coal Co.

VANCE, Commissioner.

In this workmen’s compensation case, the appellant claimed total and permanent disability as a result of an injury to his back. He had suffered previous back injuries and the board pursuant to KRS 342.121 ordered him to submit to an examination by Doctor Robert L. Keisler.

Doctor Keisler filed his report stating in substance that the appellant was thirty percent disabled to the body as a whole for heavy occupations but that this disability was due to a congenital defect which existed prior to the injury complained of. The import of the doctor’s report was that the injury…