Jeane Francis Coal Co. v. Fields

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Cammack

Reversing.

This appeal is from a judgment approving an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board which allowed Harve Fields compensation on the basis of total permanent disability resulting from an injury to his back. The Coal Company takes the position that (1) there was no competent evidence on which to base the award; (2) the Board erred in not apportioning the disability due to preexisting disease and that resulting from trauma; and (3) the Board erred in overruling the Company’s motion to appoint a disinterested physician to examine Fields.

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