International Harvester Co. of America v. Scott

The issue presented by this appeal from an award of compensation for permanent disability in the use of a hand, relates to the proportionate disability adjudged by the trial Judge of fifty per cent. Scott was an employee and injured in the hand by an accident in the course of his employment. The injury was to a finger. He was treated by the Company’s physicians, and after some discussion and delay, one of them amputated the first phalange of the middle finger, but the proof indicates that this operation was unsuccessful in that a “painful stump” was left, apparently due to the failure to…