Brundage v. IML Freight, Inc.

WILKINS, Justice:

This is an appeal by Plaintiff Harley R. Brundage from an order of the Industrial Commission which determined that he is suffering a 30 percent permanent partial bodily disability. Plaintiff maintained before the Commission and again on appeal that he is permanently and totally disabled.

Plaintiff has spent thirty years of his life as a truck driver, the most recent 17 of which he was employed by Defendant IML Freight, Inc. In August of 1975, plaintiff injured his back in an accident unrelated to his employment. In October of that year, he underwent surgery to remove…