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PEACE v. J.P. STEVENS CO.

No. 8810IC1159.

381 S.E.2d 798 (1989)

Isom J. PEACE, Employee, Plaintiff, v. J.P. STEVENS COMPANY, Employer, and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Carrier, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

August 15, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles R. Hassell, Jr., Raleigh, for plaintiff-appellant.

Mullen, Holland, Cooper, Morrow, Wilder & Sumner by H. Randolph Sumner, Gastonia, for defendants-appellees.

EAGLES, Judge.

Plaintiff complains that the Commission erred in limiting his award of compensation for total disability to the maximum total compensation payable pursuant to the Workers' Compensation Act in effect in 1973 rather than the statutes in effect in 1981 when he became totally disabled. We agree and reverse the Industrial Commission's opinion.

The facts here are not in dispute. Plaintiff was born in 1911 and completed the eighth grade in school....

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