Mary Helen Coal Corp. v. Bigelow

DUNGAN, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment affirming the Workmen’s Compensation Board in its award tó appelleé computed upon the basis of 62.5% partial permanent disability to the body as a whole. Appellant insists that certain testimony admitted by the Board was incompetent and without considering such testimony the evidence is insufficient to support the award.

The appellee claims to have been injured on June 13, 1950, while working as a track man in appellant’s mine. He says that he turned a 30-foot steel rail, weighing 40 pounds to the yard, out of a pile of rails; that he had picked…