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DIXON v. BRUCE CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION

No. 32539.

160 So.2d 116 (1963)

John DIXON, Petitioner, v. BRUCE CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION, Employers Insurance Company of Alabama and the Florida Industrial Commission, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied December 20, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John V. Christie and Allen Clements, Miami, for petitioner.

Wakefield & Underwood, Edwin H. Underwood, Jr., and Andrew L. Richard, Miami, for Bruce Construction Corp., Employers Ins. Co. of Alabama.

Burnis T. Coleman and Patrick H. Mears, Tallahassee, for Florida Industrial Commission.

THOMAS, Justice.

The petitioner, an untrained day laborer, was injured during the course of his employment by Bruce Construction Corporation 4 November 1954, when he fell down a stairway and struck his back. Subsequently he underwent two operations, one for removal of a disk and one for spinal fusion. Afterward, 17 July 1959, the deputy commissioner awarded him compensation for 45 per cent. permanent partial disability of the body as a whole.

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