Lane v. State Compensation Commissioner

Hatoher, President:

This is a proceeding in mandamus against the state compensation commissioner to compel him to complete the payments on an award made the petitioner, R. F. Lane.

Tbe facts developed in tbe proceeding follow. Three of Lane’s ribs were fractured (near tbe spinal column) on October 7, 1927, while be was at work for Coalburg-Kanawha Mining Company, a subscriber to tbe workmen’s Compensation Fund. A hospital report, dated January 10, 1930, shows that the fractures were healed firmly and “in good surgical position” but that Lane used crutches and complained of pain in his back and…