Herron v. Williams & Voris Lumber Co.

SIMPSON, Judge.

Feodies Herron, employee of Williams & Voris Lumber Company, is due compensation under the State Workmen’s Compensation Law for an injury resulting, coincidentally, in the loss of the thumb and index finger of his left hand.

Decision here turns upon construction of Section 279, Title 26, Code 1940. The schedule provides that for such injuries the employee shall receive 55 percent of his average weekly earnings during the number of weeks set out, to-wit:

For the loss of a thumb, sixty weeks. .

For the loss of a first, index, finger, forty five weeks.

The crucial question is whether…