OUACHITA MARINE & INDUSTRIAL CORP. v. MORRISON

No. 5-4879.

440 S.W.2d 216 (1969)

OUACHITA MARINE & INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION et al., Appellants, v. Carmine M. MORRISON, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

May 12, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bridges, Young, Matthews & Davis, by Bill R. Holland, Pine Bluff, for appellants.

Jerry Thomasson, Little Rock, for appellee.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

This is a workmen's compensation proceeding involving a work-connected injury that was ultimately diagnosed as a ruptured lumbar disc. When the case was heard by the referee the claimant's injury had healed to the greatest extent that the attending physicians thought to be possible without surgery. Morrison, the claimant, refused to submit to an operation. The commission made an award of a 60...

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