Skipper v. Great Central Insurance Company

This is an appeal by Charles E. Worley, Treasurer of the State of Tennessee, and Custodian of the Second Injury Fund, pursuant to T.C.A. sec. 50-1027, from a judgment awarding Nathan Skipper, designated herein as employee, benefits payable out of said Fund.

Employee, male, age 37, attained a 9th grade education. At the age of eleven months employee contracted poliomyelitis, resulting in the following permanent physical weaknesses: marked muscle weaknesses in both feet and legs; deformity of the left foot and heel, claw toes on both feet with weak dorsiflexors of both ankles and a drop foot…