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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of the Claim of John Anderson, Respondent, against International Motor Company and Another, Appellants. State Industrial Board, Respondent.
   Claimant, a mechanic, was injured in the course of his employment, March 3, 1925. An automobile spring slipped and struck him on the shin. Claimant suffered a chronic osteomyelitis of the leg. He received compensation for temporary total disability up to December, 1931; it was then found, on later hearings, that he was suffering from an active condition of osteomyelitis, productive of chills and fever, pain, and affecting the abdomen and causing headaches, and that the infection of the running sore found its way into the blood stream with the result tliat he was permanently partially disabled. The finding that he was thirty-five per cent disabled is abundantly shown in the evidence. Award unanimously affirmed, with eqsts to the State Industrial Board. Present — Hill, p. J., Rhodes, McNamee, Grapsgr and Heffeman, JJ.