MANN v. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

No. 5790.

274 P.2d 145 (1954)

58 N.M. 626

Frank MANN, Claimant-Appellant, v. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF BERNALILLO COUNTY et al., Employer, and Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Insurer, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

September 8, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph L. Smith, Lorenzo A. Chavez and Arturo G. Ortega, Albuquerque, for appellant.

Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Mims & Akin and Charles B. Larrabee, Albuquerque, for appellees.


SADLER, Justice.

This is an appeal from an award in a workmen's compensation case. Trial was before a jury which found the claimant had suffered a 29% permanent partial disability. The award was $30 per week for 160 weeks, or a total of $4800, the court arbitrarily fixing the period approximately one week in excess of the exact time to avoid fractional weeks, an adjustment of which no one complains. The appeal is based upon the claim that the period of payments should...

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