Atlas General Industries, Inc. v. Phippin

This is an appeal by the employer and insurer from a judgment of the Circuit Court for Somerset County confirming the findings and order of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission awarding the claimant, Phippin, compensation for permanent total disability, without apportionment of disability to any pre-existing disease or infirmity.

There is no dispute about the fact that on February 8, 1961, the claimant, while engaged in the performance of his duties as a night watchman for the employer, slipped on some ice, fell and broke his left leg. Some of the injuries upon which the appellee bases his…