Magreta v. Ambassador Steel Co.

Three distinct appellate issues requiring our construction of our workmen’s compensation act 1 are presented by this appeal. 2 First, we must determine whether an employee injured in the course of his employment is entitled to cumulative specific loss awards for loss of a leg and also for loss of the foot of that leg when, in an effort to save as much of the leg as was medically possible, a guillotine amputation of the foot was performed and subsequently a definitive operation above the foot but below the knee was performed. Second, we must determine whether the employee is entitled to a…