Swaney v. GEORGE NEWTON CONSTRUCTION COMPANY

By appropriate assignments of error appellant challenges the order of the Industrial Commission which authorized reduction in the amount of the workmen’s compensation benefits payable to him and the conclusions of law upon which that order was based. In the opinion and award made by the Chairman of the Industrial Commission, which were adopted with modification by the full Commission, the Chairman had concluded as a matter of law that “(u)nder the provisions of G.S. 97-10, G.S. 97-10.1 and G.S. 97-10.2, the defendant employer is not obligated to pay compensation and medical expense for the…