NOWLIN v. MISSISSIPPI CHEMICAL CO.

No. 39041.

219 Miss. 873 (1954)

70 So.2d 49

51 Adv. S. 63

NOWLIN v. MISSISSIPPI CHEMICAL CO., et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 1, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Barrett Jones, Crisler & Crisler, Jackson; Lemuel C. Parker, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for appellant.

Young & Daniel, Jackson, for appellees.

Pyles & Tucker, Jackson, Amicus Curiae.

Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, Amicus Curiae, Replying to Pyles & Tucker, Amicus Curiae, On Behalf of Standard Accident Insurance Company.


LEE, J.

The inquiry in this case concerns the benefits to which W.M. Nowlin is entitled in his claim, under the Workmen's Compensation Act, for partial loss of use of his right leg.

On September 11, 1950, he was working as a pipe fitter for Mississippi Chemical Company. He fell from a scaffold, 8 or 10 feet high, as the rope broke when he was twisting it for the purpose of moving pipe. He sustained comminuted fractures of the distal ends of the right tibia...

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