Gillam v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Hatcher, Judge:

This appeal involves the right of the Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner to require a rehabilitation operation.

The claimant received a severe injury to his back in 1932 while at work for a subscriber to the Compensation Fund, and has been totally disabled ever since. He was paid compensation until August 15, 1935. Further compensation has been denied both by the Commissioner and the Appeal Board because he would not submit to an operative fusion of the lumbo-sacral and sacral joints. This operation is not described or its attendant suffering mentioned. Three physicians…