Richmond v. State Compensation Commissioner

Given, Judge:

This appeal from, an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board involves the right of the widow of an employee to receive the unpaid balance of an award of twenty-five per cent permanent partial disability, made to the employee by the State Compensation Commissioner, on April 12, 1950. The board reversed the holding of the commissioner, by order entered February 17, 1951, holding that “no award has been made or has become final within the scope and meaning” of Subsection (e), Section 6, Article 4, Chapter 23 of the Code, as amended.

The employee and the employer each filed a…