Morgan v. American Bitumuls Co.

I am in accord with the conclusion that plaintiff- has suffered a permanent partial disability and that, therefore, compensation was payable under paragraph (c), subsection 1, section 8 of Act 20 of 1914, as amended, Act No. 242 of 1928, p. 357, since plaintiff was earning a lesser wage than that received previous to the accident. However, I do not coincide in the suggestion that, if the cleaning and pressing business (in which plaintiff is engaged) is not *983manual labor, compensation payments should have been computed at 20% of 65% of his average weekly earnings, as held in Washington v.…