Winn Dixie Louisville, Inc. v. Watson

REED, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which the board granted the employee’s request to reopen a previously entered award (KRS 342.125). As a result of the reopening, the board increased the award from 25 percent permanent partial disability to total and permanent disability. The employer appealed the board’s decision to the circuit court and that court upheld the board’s finding. The employer thereupon appealed to this court.

Helen Watson was injured in September 1964 while working for Winn Dixie Louisville, Inc., as a cashier in a grocery store. She struck her right elbow on…