Citation Numbers: 432 S.W.2d 409
Judges: Milliken
Filed Date: 10/4/1968
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 10/1/2021
The Workmen’s Compensation Board awarded Estill Muncy, a fifty-five-year-old telephone lineman of the appellee, Peoples Rural Telephone Company Cooperative, Inc., compensation benefits on the basis of 30% disability to his body as a whole for a fracture of his left tibia about three inches above the ankle. Muncy contends on this appeal, from a judgment affirming the award, that he is totally and permanently disabled.
The gist of the medical testimony is that Muncy may not at present be able to climb poles, but that he can do other work such as clearing brush along the lines of his employer, that he was able to dig holes and to
The judgment is affirmed.