City of Enterprise v. Herring

This is a workmen's compensation case. Plaintiff received an injury to his back while moving logs. He was determined by the trial court to have sustained as a result of the injury a permanent partial disability resulting in a sixty-five percent loss of ability to earn. We affirm.

The issue is whether the evidence sustains the award or, put another way, whether the court could lawfully find a sixty-five percent loss of ability to earn when medical evidence of physical disability did not exceed ten percent of the body as a whole.

The evidence was that claimant had worked for the City of…