Consumers Coal & Fuel Oil Co. v. Industrial Commission

The following opinion was filed February 9, 1937 :

Fowler, J.

The facts involved are stipulated. The only question involved is whether the Industrial Commission used the correct basis in computing an award under the Workmen’s Compensation Act.

An employee of the company while in the course of his employment “sustained, permanent partial disabilities as follows : Ten per cent loss of the use of the middle finger at the proximal joint; seventy-five per cent loss of use of the index finger at the proximal joint; and twenty per cent loss of the use of the thumb at the proximal joint.”

Under these…