Winston Furniture, Inc. v. Kirkpatrick

EDWARD N. SCRUGGS, Retired Circuit Judge.

This workmen’s compensation case was instituted by Mrs. Kirkpatrick against her employer, Winston Furniture.

After an ore tenus trial the circuit court made a finding of fact in its final judgment. It was determined that the employee’s average weekly wage at the date of the injury was $210, and that she sustained a permanent partial disability to her body as a whole to the extent of twenty percent and a permanent partial loss of ability to earn of twenty percent. The trial court held that the employee was entitled to “the legal minimum of $65.00 per…