Lawson v. Harlan Wallins Coal Corp.

CAMMACK, Chief Justice.

This is the second appeal of this case. See Harlan Wallins Coal Corporation v. Lawson, Ky., 242 S.W.2d 999. There we directed that the case be remanded to the Board for the making of appropriate orders because the Board had not made a finding of fact as to the extent of Lawson’s disability resulting from a hernia. Before the Board made an award it gave the Coal Corporation an opportunity to offer Lawson a surgical operation. At its next regular meeting some two weeks later, the Board, upon finding that an operation had not been offered Lawson, made an award on the basis…