SPECIAL INDEMNITY FUND v. SMITH

No. 42807.

452 P.2d 568 (1969)

SPECIAL INDEMNITY FUND of the State of Oklahoma, administered by the State Insurance Fund, Petitioner, v. Tom J. SMITH, Seminole County and the State Industrial Court of the State of Oklahoma, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

March 25, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam Hill, Guy A. Secor, Oklahoma City, for petitioner.

Buck Cartwright, Wewoka, G.T. Blankenship, Atty. Gen., for respondents.


McINERNEY, Justice.

Under review here is the trial tribunal's decision by which the Special Indemnity Fund was adjudged liable for claimant's permanent total disability to the body as a whole. The decisive question is whether under our Workmen's Compensation Act the Fund may be liable for the cumulative effect produced by claimant's accidental back injury when considered in combination with a previously adjudicated injury to both wrists and the antecedent, unadjudicated...

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