Outlaw v. Johnson Service Co.

Littlejohn, Justice.

In this workmen’s compensation case the claimant, an electrician-employee, sustained a back injury in a compensable accident o,n November 16, 1967. His physician testified to a rating of 30% permanent, general, overall bodily disability. Based on such rating the South Carolina Industrial Commission awarded him “compensation at the rate of Thirty-two and 40/100 Dollars per week for a period of two hundred ninety (290) weeks * * * representing a thirty percent (30%) general bodily disability.” Upon appeal to *488the Richland County Court of Common Pleas the award was set aside.…