Suell v. State Accident Insurance Fund

The sole issue in this workmen’s compensation appeal by claimant is the extent of his disability. The referee and Workmen’s Compensation Board found claimant to be permanently and totally disabled; the circuit court reversed, awarding claimant 50 per cent permanent partial disability based on its finding that claimant had failed to sustain Ms burden of proving total disability or that he comes within the odd-lot category.

We adopt the following background statement from the referee’s opinion and order:

“On April 27, 1972, claimant, then a 47 year old warehouseman, fell some 10 or 12 feet from a…