Little River Bank & Trust Co. v. Neal

O’CONNELL, Justice.

In this workmen’s compensation proceeding we are called upon to determine whether the deputy was correct in awarding compensation benefits on the basis of disability of the whole hand where the functional disability is limited to the thumb.

Claimant, Bettye T. Neal, a teller in the petitioner bank, pricked her left thumb on a metal staple in the course of her employment. The thumb became infected requiring considerable medical treatment.

The evidence shows the residual effect of the injury, infection and treatment to be a *810stiffening of and loss of motion in the…