International Harvester Co. v. Brown

'CULLEN, Commissioner.

The Workmen’s Compensation Board awarded compensation to Earnest Brown for total permanent disability, arising from a herniated intervertebral disc suffered in an accident in his employer’s coal mine. On appeal to the circuit court the award was upheld. On its appeal to this Court the employer maintains that the board erroneously permitted the claimant to introduce in rebuttal certain medical testimony that should have been introduced in chief, and that the hoard was not entitled to base its award on the evidence so erroneously admitted.

The evidence before the board was…