Watts v. J. S. Young Co.

Frank E. Watts, Sr. (claimant) appeals from an order of the Superior Court of Baltimore City affirming an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission, which withheld an award to him for permanent partial disability of his right hand because the claimant refused to undergo an additional operation on the hand.

The claimant sustained an accidental injury to his right hand and wrist on October 28, 1963, while repairing one of the employer’s machines. He was taken by ambulance to the Johns Hopkins Hospital where the wound was cleaned and debrided and the tendons in his hand and wrist repaired.…