ADA IRON & METAL WORKS v. TARPLEY

No. 40911.

396 P.2d 508 (1964)

ADA IRON & METAL WORKS and Mid-Continent Casualty Company, Petitioners, v. Ed TARPLEY and the State Industrial Court, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

October 20, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Looney, Watts, Looney, Nichols & Johnson, Oklahoma City, for petitioners.

Marx Childers, Oklahoma City, Buck Cartwright, Wewoka, Charles R. Nesbitt, Atty. Gen., for respondents.


BERRY, Justice.

The question involved in this review is substantially:

Can an injury to the back be combined with an injury to the leg for the purpose of awarding compensation on the basis of permanent partial disability to the body as a whole?

In 1954, Ed Tarpley, claimant, suffered a gunshot wound to the left leg and in 1955 the leg was operated for a blood clot. On May 2, 1963, while in the employment of...

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