KELLAMS v. CAROLINA METAL PRODUCTS

No. 234.

102 S.E.2d 841 (1958)

248 N.C. 199

Viola KELLAMS, Employee, v. CAROLINA METAL PRODUCTS, Inc., Employer; and New York Mutual Casualty Insurance Company, Carrier.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 9, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Scott, Charlotte, for plaintiff, appellant.

Carpenter & Webb, L. B. Carpenter, Charlotte, for defendants, appellees.


HIGGINS, Justice.

The hearing commissioner determined the plaintiff's average weekly wages before the accident amounted to $46. Under the provisions of G.S. § 97-31 (p) she would have been entitled to 60 per cent of her average weekly wages, or $27.60, if the loss of the use of her leg had been total. But inasmuch as she lost only 10 per cent of the use of her leg she was entitled to weekly payments of only 10 per cent of the $27.60, or $2.76. The award required...

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