Rhea v. Kansas City Power & Light Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Price, J.:

The only question in this workmen’s compensation case concerns the formula used by the commissioner in computing the award, and which was upheld and adopted by the trial court.

Material portions of the findings and award, and which tell the story and show the question involved, are as follow:

“The Examiner finds that claimant’s injury of May 19, 1952, consisted of a fracture of the big toe of the right foot and of the fourth metatarsal bone of tire right foot accompanied by swelling and pain and that because of these injuries claimant was…