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YOUNG v. LONG

463 S.W.2d 326 (1971)

John W. YOUNG, Commissioner, etc., Appellant, v. Jarrel Edwin LONG, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

February 12, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin Glazer, Frankfort, Gemma M. Harding, Louisville, for appellant.

Harris J. Berman, Louisville, for Jarrel Edwin Long.

William Mellor, Mellor & Shaw, Louisville, for the Marley Co. and the Employers Insurance of Wausau.

CLAY, Commissioner.

This is a workmen's compensation case. The employee, age 21, sustained a low-back injury and admittedly is 100% disabled. However, part of his disability is due to a preexisting degenerating lumbar disc condition, referred to in the medical evidence as "spondylosis".

The controversy here is narrowly limited to the question of whether the prior dormant, nondisabling condition properly may be characterized...

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