Stewart v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner

Haymond, Judge:

On this appeal the employer, Eastern Associated Coal Corporation, seeks reversal of the final order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board entered May 27, 1971, which affirmed the order of the State Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner entered December 2, 1970 which awarded the claimant, Weldon Stewart, total permanent disability benefits payable for life at the rate of $38.00 per week.

The question for decision is whether the total permanent disability award is. warranted by the evidence.

On May 13, 1965 the claimant, married and forty-nine years of age at the time of the…