Cuevas v. Sutter Well Works

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The appellant, Lecter Cuevas, claimant below, appeals from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Harrison County affirming the order of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission. The employer and carrier cross appeal. The appellant assigns that the court erred in affirming the Commission which found that claimant suffered a preexisting handicap, disease, or lesion which contributed *481to the production of the results following appellant’s injury in the amount of fifty percent.

The question presented by this appeal is the construction of Sec. 6998-04, Chap. 277,…