Cobb v. Gilliland Oil Co.

This is an action under the Employers’ Liability Act, in which plaintiff seeks to obtain judgment for compensation for permanent total disability at the rate of twenty dollars per week for the period of disability not exceeding four hundred weeks.

On trial, judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff for compensation at the weekly rate claimed for the period of disability, not to exceed three hundred weeks.

The defendant appeals, and plaintiff has answered the appeal asking that the judgment be amended and that the period of weekly payments be increased so as to fix the same for the period of…