Grudle v. State Accident Insurance Fund

This appeal is taken by the State Accident Insurance Fund from a judgment of the Circuit Court for Clackamas County awarding the claimant-workman permanent partial disability equal to 50 per cent of complete loss of all five digits of his left hand. The workman suffered a partial loss by amputation of his left thumb and left index finger and also sustained *328injury to his left middle finger while operating a power saw. The remaining two fingers of his left hand were uninjured, though it is undisputed that they suffered loss of effective opposition.

The appeal requires that we construe and apply…