Van Hooser v. Mueller Co.

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

In this worker’s compensation case plaintiff, Gary Gene Van Hooser, was found by the chancellor to have suffered a sixty-five percent permanent partial disability to the body as a whole as a result of an on-the-job injury that occurred on 16 June 1984, and awarded permanent partial disability payments for two hundred and sixty weeks. The benefits that had accrued prior to trial were ordered paid immediately, while the remaining benefits were ordered paid in weekly installments. Upon plaintiffs motion, a hearing was held, and the chancellor ordered defendant, Mueller…