Collins Construction Company v. Berry

JOHNSON, Justice.

Under challenge, as erroneous and unauthorized by law, is the trial tribunal’s order allowing claimant continuing temporary benefits during his healing period, but “not to exceed 300 weeks.”

As disclosed by the record, the accident occurred on September 22, 1960, when claimant and a co-worker were in process of lifting and loading a section of tin culvert pipe 30 feet long and 24 inches in diameter, weighing approximately 500 to 750 pounds. Claimant sustained an “acute strain of the dorsolumbar, lumbar and lumbosacral regions of the spine.” Hospitalized for eight days after…