DAVIS v. OKEELANTA SUGAR REFINERY, INC.

No. 31747.

147 So.2d 513 (1962)

Hulet DAVIS, Petitioner, v. OKEELANTA SUGAR REFINERY, INC., Robert F. Coleman of Florida, Inc., Special Disability Fund and Florida Industrial Commission, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

December 21, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillips & Hathaway and Sam D. Phillips, Jr., West Palm Beach, for petitioner.

Tylander & Simpson, West Palm Beach, for Okeelanta Sugar Refinery, Inc., Burnis T. Coleman, Patrick H. Mears, Tallahassee, and A.S. Fontaine, Gulf Breeze, for respondents.


SEBRING, Judge (Ret.).

This is a certiorari proceeding wherein the claimant in a workman's compensation case is seeking the quashal of an order of the Florida Industrial Commission reversing an order of its deputy commissioner finding in favor of the claimant. The essential facts of the case are not in dispute.

In 1942 the claimant was involved in an accident resulting in the loss of the thumb of his right hand. Subsequently, while employed by Okeelanta Sugar...

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