Reese v. Gas Engineering & Construction Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fromme, J.:

This is the second chapter of a workman’s compensation case. The first chapter was reported in Reese v. Gas Engineering & Construction Co., 216 Kan. 542, 532 P. 2d 1044. The primary issue in the first case was whether claimant should be limited to an award for a scheduled disability (partial loss of use of his left leg) under K. S. A. 44-510d or whether he might be entitled to an award for general bodily disability arising from his injury which, as a natural consequence, affected his back in addition to his left leg.

In Reese we held:

“There…