Chandler v. Oil Fields Gas Co.

Plaintiff sues for compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Act No. 20 of 1914, as amended by Act No. 43 of 1922).

He alleges total disability and claims $18.00 per week during disability, not exceeding 400 weeks, under clause (b) of Subsection 1 of Section 8.

This clause reads as follows:

“For injury producing permanent total disability to do Work of any reasonable character, sixty per centum of wages during the period of disability, not, however, beyond four hundred weeks.”

He appeals from a judgment awarding him $18.00 a week during, disability, not to exceed 125 weeks.

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