Collins v. Biltmore Oil Company

When an employee holds two separate jobs and is injured in one of them, the compensation rate may not be based on his aggregate compensation from both employments, but must relate only to the wages earned in the job producing the injury. Barnhardt v.Yellow Cab Company, Inc., 266 N.C. 419, 429, 146 S.E.2d 479 (1966). On the unusual facts in this case, the same principle applies to plaintiff's benefit. After being disabled in his physically demanding job, plaintiff was able to continue in a relatively sedentary, off-hours position as manager of a fraternal organization for some 18 months, with…