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DEP'T OF CORRECTION v. JOHNSON

[No. 168, September Term, 1959.]

222 Md. 139 (1960)

159 A.2d 658

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY ET AL. v. JOHNSON

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 24, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Howard Holzer, Special Assistant Attorney General, and Paul J. Yeager, Special Attorney, with whom were C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, U. Theodore Hayes, Special Assistant Attorney General, and Paul J. Reed, Jr., Special Attorney, on the brief, for the appellants.

Fred E. Weisgal, with whom were Stanley Sollins and Weisgal & Sollins on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.

BRUNE, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The claimant-appellee, Johnson, sustained an accidental injury while working in the woodshop of a penal institution, as a result of which both of his thumbs were cut off at the terminal phalanx. Johnson, whose formal education did not extend beyond the sixth grade, was a cabinetmaker before entering the institution. The Workmen's Compensation Commission (the Commission) found that Johnson had sustained a permanent partial...

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