Ouachita Marine & Industrial Corp. v. Morrison

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation proceeding involving a work-connected injury that was ultimately diagnosed as a ruptured lumbar disc. When the case was heard by the referee the claimant’s injury had healed to the greatest extent that the attending physicians thought to be possible without surgery. Morrison, the claimant, refused to submit to an operation. The commission made an award of a 60% permanent partial disability, which was affirmed by the circuit court.

On appeal the question is one of first impression in Arkansas: Under our statute does the workmen’s…