Skipworth v. McElroy Metal Mill, Inc.

MARVIN, Judge.

The employer and insurer appeal from a judgment for total and permanent disability benefits awarded the employee under the Workmen’s Compensation Law. We affirm.

Appellants contend that the employee was not a skilled or semi-skilled laborer as found by the trial court, but was a common laborer; that under either classification, the employee was not totally and permanently disabled, and that appellants’ motions below to reopen the case and for a new trial, both based on the grounds of newly discovered evidence, should have been granted.

At the time of the accident, employee had…