Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. v. Holcomb

JONES, Justice:

This workmen’s compensation case comes here with the only issue for us to determine being the correctness of an order of the Commission, affirmed by the Circuit Court of Jackson County, insofar as it allows medical expenses.

The expenses involved here are those incurred without authorization of the employer ; the authority for which, in pertinent part, is found in Section 6998-08 of Mississippi Code of 1942 Annotated (1952) on medical expenses, which reads:

If the employer fails to provide the same, after request by the injured employee, such injured employee may do so at the…