Case ID: ga-app_88/html/0482-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Felton, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

34681.
    Crowe v. St. Paul-Mercury Indemnity Company et al.
    
    Decided July 1, 1953.
    
      W. C. Lowe, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Currie & McGhee, contra.
    Lewis Crowe filed a claim against Ira Hardin Construction Company and its carrier, St. Paul-Mercury Indemnity Company, for compensation for an injury received in the course of and growing out of his employment. The only issues involved on the hearing were the degree of the claimant’s disability resulting from the injuries and the amount of his weekly wages. The deputy director found the claimant’s average weekly wages to be $32.98 and found that he suffered a 40 percent partial loss of use of his right hand, and based an award on such findings. The full board, on appeal, affirmed the deputy director’s award. On the claimant’s appeal to the superior court the board’s award was affirmed, and the claimant excepts.
   Felton, J.

1. Without setting out the evidence, suffice it to say that there was sufficient competent evidence to authorize the finding that the claimant suffered only a 40 percent loss of use of his right hand as a result of his injuries.

2. Where the evidence shows that the claimant did not work in his employment during substantially the whole of 13 weeks immediately preceding the injury, and the claimant himself introduced the evidence showing the wages of a similar employee in the same employment, who had worked substantially the whole of such 13 weeks, the claimant cannot complain that the superior court erred in affirming the board’s award, basing the claimant’s average weekly wages on that of the similar employee as prescribed by Code (Ann. Supp.) § 114-402 (2) instead of using the formula prescribed in Code (Ann. Supp.) § 114-402 (3).

The court did not err in affirming the board’s award.

Judgment affirmed.

Sutton, C. J., and Worrill, J., concur.