WOODWARD & COMPANY v. STATE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

No. 38756.

349 P.2d 638 (1960)

WOODWARD & COMPANY and Phoenix Assurance Company of New York, a Corporation, Petitioners, v. STATE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION and W.L. Shannon, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

February 9, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rhodes, Crowe, Hieronymus & Holloway, and Harold M. Durall, Oklahoma City, for petitioners.

Paul Harkey, Oklahoma City, for W.L. Shannon, respondent.

Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., Richard M. Huff, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent, State Industrial Commission.


WELCH, Justice.

W.L. Shannon, hereinafter called claimant, admittedly sustained an accidental injury on August 20, 1957, when struck in the head, neck and upper back, by a pipe nipple ejected from the casing at an oil well site in McClain County, Oklahoma. While gradually progressing towards normal recovery, he suffered, in February, 1958, a setback rendering him temporarily totally disabled. Claimant remained under medical care from the date of injury until January...

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