Bowles v. James Lumber Company

While employed at common labor by defendant the plaintiff sustained an accidental injury resulting in loss of the thumb and cutting of tendons on the palmar side of his right hand. He was paid compensation for specific loss of the thumb. After those payments ceased, on application filed, he was awarded additional compensation of $30 per week until the further order of the commission on a finding of total disability as a common laborer because of the condition of his hand. That finding is not here contested.

In appealing here defendants contend that plaintiff is not entitled to further…