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JOHNSON v. INDUSTRIAL COMM.

5 Wis.2d 584 (1958)

JOHNSON, Appellant, v. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION and others, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

December 2, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief by Borg, McGill & Moodie of Superior, attorneys, and William L. McCusker of Madison of counsel, and oral argument by Mr. McCusker and Mr. P. G. McGill.

For the respondent Industrial Commission there was a brief by the Attorney General and Mortimer Levitan and Beatrice Lampert, assistant attorneys general, and oral argument by Mrs. Lampert.

For the respondents Walco Engineering & Construction Company and Standard Accident Insurance Company there was a brief by Hughes, Anderson & Davis of Superior, and oral argument by R. E. Anderson.

HALLOWS, J.

The question on appeal is whether traumatic neurosis is compensable under the Workmen's Compensation Act, and if so, whether the healing period for such mental injury is to be determined solely on a physiological basis.

Dr. Houkom, the Industrial Commission, and the circuit court took the view that the limitation in the use of the appellant's arm after November 1, 1954, was a residual. The Industrial Commission could only find such permanent partial...

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