Community Hospital v. Gore

CATINNA, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Graves Circuit Court upholding an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Board awarding Fannie R. Gore total permanent disability benefits resulting from injuries sustained while an employee of Community Hospital, Inc.

Fannie R. Gore, a practical nurse, was an employee of Community Hospital, Inc., and its predecessor for a number of years. In 1967 she injured her back while lifting a patient and was hospitalized for a period of some nineteen days. In the early part of 1969 she reinjured her back, was hospitalized and, subsequently, in…