Abbercrombie v. Maryland Casualty Co.

This is a compensation case. After an award based upon a finding of a 75 per cent, loss of use of the claimant’s leg, he applied for an increase of compensation upon the ground of a change in condition, contending that such loss of use amounted to 100 per cent. This application was refused by the industrial commission, and an appeal was denied by the superior court; whereupon the claimant brought the case to this court. The compensation had been revised upward several times before. The claimant testified that he could “peck around with a hoe,” and had done a little gardening for neighbors,…