Special Indemnity Fund v. Wade

Upon testimony presented the Industrial Commission found that the respondent suffered a compensable accidental injury to his left hip, which had several years theretofore been seriously injured in a football game; that the respondent was at the time of the later injury a physically impaired person under the Special Indemnity Fund Act and the combined effect of both injuries constituted 50% permanent partial disability to the body as a whole; that the later injury resulted in 5% of total disability.

Both injuries appear to have materially and permanently affected the left leg, but there is no…