Lauderdale Christian Nursing Home v. Dean

EDWARD N. SCRUGGS, Retired Circuit Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation case.

The only issue raised by defendant upon its appeal is whether the trial judge’s finding that the plaintiff was permanently partially disabled to the extent of fifty percent was supported by the evidence. Only the degree of disability is in dispute.

The decision in Cochrum v. Kinro Industries, Inc., 352 So.2d 456 (Ala.Civ.App.1977) is very much in point. It was therein stated:

On appeal, defendant takes the position that the trial court’s judgment that plaintiff suffered a thirty percent permanent partial disability…