Taylor v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner

Calhoun, Judge:

This workmen’s compensation case is before the Court on an appeal by the employer, Island Creek Coal Company, from an order entered by the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board on September 4, 1968, which affirmed a ruling made by the Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner embodied in an order entered by him on April 4, 1968, by which order the commissioner made an award of 35% permanent partial disability benefits to Acie Taylor, the claimant.

The basic question presented for decision on this appeal is whether the appeal board erred in holding that the pertinent period prescribed by…