US FIDELITY & GUARANTY COMPANY v. Wilson

Townsend, Presiding Judge.

1. While it is true that where, on a hearing in a workmen’s compensation case based on change of condition, it appears that the claimant’s condition has not changed he cannot prevail, although the first award gave him a rating of disability less than he actually suffered (Georgia Marine Salvage Co. v. Merritt, 82 Ga. App. 111 (1b), 60 S. E. 2d 419) yet it is also true that if the claimant’s condition has in fact changed for the worse as shown by competent evidence he will be entitled to a new award even though under 'his own testimony he was totally disabled at the…