Hopkins v. Wiscombe Southern Painting Co.

MILLIKEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the trial court reversing and remanding the case to the Workmen’s Compensation Board for a reconsideration of the degree of disability found by the Board. The Board had found the claimant to be permanently and totally disabled in his work as a construction painter, and the trial court concluded on appeal of the award that his work record clearly indicated that he was only partially disabled.

Besides the pay scale, construction painters are distinguished from ordinary house painters and decorators by the nature of their work which involves the…