Continental Insurance Co. v. Dowdy

OPINION

HENRY, Chief Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The employer appeals from an award in favor of the employee for temporary partial disability and medical expenses.

I

Appellee, Lorene Dowdy, a fifty-four year old woman with an eighth grade education, had- worked for appellant, Linden Apparel Corporation, as a sewing machine operator for several years. She was assigned to various jobs, and on the date of her injury she had been engaged in sewing pockets on high-back overalls for about a month. This job required appellee to handle bundles of forty-eight pairs of overalls. She…