COMMONWEALTH DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. PORTER


469 S.W.2d 350 (1971)

COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Appellant, v. John Paul PORTER et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

June 25, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Duff, Dept. of Highways, Frankfort, Lewis D. Jones, Flemingsburg, for appellant.

Stanley R. Hogg, Creech & Hogg, Ashland, for appellees.


REED, Judge.

In this workmen's compensation case two questions for decision are presented. The first is whether the Workmen's Compensation Board properly allowed recovery of medical expenses from the employer in excess of the stated statutory maximum that applies generally. The second is whether the Board erred in determining the extent of the injured employee's disability to be 75 percent permanent partial rather than permanent and total. The circuit court upon appeal...

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