United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Pogue

(after stating the case as above). The major question of the case is that of whether under the pleadings and proof the appellee was entitled to be awarded the compensation of 60 per cent, of his weekly wages, payable weekly during the period of 200 weeks from the date of the injury, as of partial incapacity to work from the permanent loss of the use of a specific member of the body, or during 401 weeks, and payable in a lump sum, as of total incapacity to labor from permanent injury in its nature affecting the body and not alone a specific member thereof. The appellant insists that, under the…