Aron v. Kirk's Lawn Service

DREW, Justice.

The petition for certiorari in this cause controverts an order of the full commission vacating an award of compensation of 5% permanent partial disability of the body as a whole and other benefits.

The pivotal point in the controversy concerns the question of whether or not the employee falsified an employment application by failing to truthfully answer certain questions relating to prior industrial accidents and existing physical impairments. The deputy commissioner found that the claimant was an uneducated negro man unable to read or write and that the employment application…