Special Indemnity Fund of the Oklahoma v. Beller

IRWIN, Justice.

Under challenge, as contrary to medical evidence, is the trial tribunal’s finding that claimant is permanently totally disabled from the cumulative effect of his pre-exist-ing impairments considered in combination with the disability attributable to the last injury.

As disclosed by undisputed proof, claimant’s former impairments are: (a) an adjudicated injury to the back and chest sustained on January 14, 1958, for which he was awarded 30 per centum permanent (partial) disability to the body as a whole; (b) total loss of hearing in the right ear. In his most recent compensable…