Special Indemnity Fund v. Keel

This is an appeal by Special Indemnity Fund of the State of Oklahoma, hereinafter referred to as petitioner, from an award made to Joe Keel, hereinafter referred to as claimant.

The claimant received an accidental injury to his right shoulder on April 29, 1943, while in the employ of Choctaw Cotton Oil Company. He filed his claim for compensation for such injury, and when, at a hearing, it- developed that his left shoulder had been injured in an automobile accident in 1937, the commission ordered the Special Indemnity Fund to be made a party to the proceeding. After further hearings were had,…