Roper v. Kimbrell's of Greenville, Inc.

Legge, Justice.

In the course of his employment as manager of Kimbrell’s of Greenville, Inc., a furniture store, respondent sustained fractures of the right 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th ribs and a separation of the joint between the left collar-bone and shoulder blade. Upon the hearing of his claim under the Workmen’s Compensation Law the hearing commissioner awarded compensation for a forty (40%) per cent loss of use of the left arm and a fifteen (15%) per cent loss of use of the right arm. This award was affirmed by the full commission, and thereafter by the resident judge of the thirteenth…