City of Olive Hill v. Parsons

Opinion op the Court by

Clay, Commissioner

Affirming.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Carter Circuit Court affirming an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. That award allowed appellee compensation at the rate of $9 a week for a period of three hundred and thirty-five weeks, on a finding of seventy-five per cent partial permanent disability.

The important facts are not in dispute. Appellee developed an inguinal hernia on March 26, 1943, which arose out of and in the course of his employment. Application for compensation was made in March 1944, and on May 24, 1944, he submitted to…