Alaska Workmen's Compensation Board v. H & M Logging Co.

OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

This appeal concerns a question of statutory construction: does our workmen’s compensation law, AS 23.30.205, as it was worded in 1967, provide for payment from the second injury fund to a claimant suffering from permanent partial disability ?

On September 7, 1967, Valgene Clothier was injured while in the employ of appel-lee H & M Logging Company. At the time of this injury, Mr. Clothier was already suffering from a permanent partial disability as the result of a previous industrial accident. The appellant, Alaska Workmen’s Compensation Board, found that the previous…