Rhodes v. Cottle Construction Company

NOBLE, Justice.

The claimant, being dissatisfied with a judgment limiting workman’s compensation payments for temporary total disability during the healing period of an injured scheduled member to eighteen months and 25% partial permanent disability to the scheduled member thereafter, and refusal to grant attorneys fees, appeals from a judgment rendered by the court trying the case without a jury.

The facts, so far as pertinent to the decision, are that R. C. Rhodes, the claimant, was 62 years of age at the time of trial, is a carpenter by trade and knows no other trade or means of livelihood.…