Battersby v. Bell Aircraft Corporation

COMPTON, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order vacating a judgment in a workmen’s compensation case. For clarity, it should be stated that the proceeding is not one involving changed conditions of the workman.

The claim for compensation was filed in Otero County. The main question before the lower court was the extent of disability suffered by the claimant, and at a hearing on October 5, 1956, the court orally announced that a finding would be made that claimant was totally and permanently disabled from performing his usual and ordinary work.

On October 8, 1956, appellees filed a motion for a…