Russell v. Virginia Bridge & Iron Co.

This suit, instituted under the Workmen’s Compensation Law, Code 1932, section 6851 et seq., presents two questions for our determination: First, was defendant justified in suspending disability, payments because of petitioner’s refusal to have his leg amputated five inches below the knee; and second, is petitioner entitled to recover compensation for total and permanent disability as a result of the injury which he received?

The petitioner, forty-five years of age, is uneducated and is a rivet welder. On April 30, 1936, while on duty at the plant of defendant, a helper negligently allowed a…