Special Indemnity Fund v. Smith

McINERNEY, Justice.

Under review here is the trial tribunal’s decision by which the Special Indemnity Fund was adjudged liable for claimant’s permanent total disability to the body as a whole. The decisive question is whether under our Workmen’s Compensation Act the Fund may be liable for the cumulative effect produced by claimant’s accidental back injury when considered in combination with a previously adjudicated injury to both wrists and the antecedent, unadju-dicated residual effect of spinal meningitis.

Claimant received an award of 10% permanent partial disability to the body as a whole…