Special Indemnity Fund v. Acuff

HALLEY, Vice Chief Justice.

The award under review allows claimant benefits against the Special Indemnity Fund (designated herein as the Fund) for permanent total disability from the cumulative effect of her pre-existing impairment considered in combination with disability produced by the last accidental injury standing alone.

While at work for Pontotoc Guernsey Farms, her last employer, claimant sustained on April 27, 1960, an accidental injury to the back. Final disposition of her claim against this employer was effected on October 21, 1960, by an award for $600.00 entered on joint petition…