Chicago Bridge Iron Company v. Cole

The change in condition referred to in the Code, § 114-709, is one which must have occurred subsequently to the award of November 12, 1942. The evidence before the board at that hearing demanded a finding that the claimant was afflicted with a second-degree hernia and was temporarily totally disabled. The evidence on the last hearing demanded the same finding. Therefore it appears conclusively that the claimant’s degree of compensable disability, namely, temporary total, had not changed since the last award, and it follows that the last award of compensation and for another surgical operation…