Hix v. Potlatch Forests, Inc.

SMITH, Justice.

Appellant is herein referred to as the claimant, and the Industrial Accident Board as the Board.

This appeal presents the question whether the Board’s determination of the degree of claimant’s partial permanent disability (residual of a personal injury caused by a compensation-covered accident) of 76.5% of “the whole man”, and its evaluation thereof in a like percentage of 400 weeks’ compensation, is incorrect as a matter of law.

The issue has to do with the applicability of one or the other of two sections of the workmen’s compensation law. The first, I.C. § 72-310(a), providing…