Ruby Construction Company v. Curling

NEIKIRK, Judge.

Appellee Pink Curling, Jr., an employee of appellant Ruby Construction Company, Inc., was awarded compensation for total permanent disability by the Workmen’s Compensation Board. On appeal to the circuit court the award was affirmed. The employer has appealed from the judgment.

Curling, a forty-one-year-old man, was employed as a carpenter. He sustained under compensable circumstances a traumatic injury diagnosed as a herniated disc. Later, the intervertebral disc at L-5 interspace was removed by surgery. When appellee Curling was released from the hospital, the doctor told him…