Dowdy v. State Compensation Commissioner

Woods, Judge:

Will Dowdy was injured May 4, 1918, by a slate fall, tbe employer’s office copy of its report of the accident (the original having been destroyed in the Capitol fire of 1921) showing a dislocation of the left hip and an extensive contusion of the left knee. Compensation was paid for 8-2/7 weeks, and the claim closed, claimant being reported able to resume labor. The case was re-opened in 1931, and, after a hearing, the commissioner found claimant’s present paralytic condition to be the result of an invasion of the central nervous system by Yon Becklinghausen’s disease, also…