41 Ga. App. 729 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1930
This is a compensation case. After an award based upon a finding of a 75 per cent, loss of use of the claimant’s leg, he applied for an increase of compensation upon the ground of a change in condition, contending that such loss of use amounted to 100 per cent. This application was refused by the industrial commission, and an appeal was denied by the superior court; whereupon the claimant brought the case to this court. The compensation had been revised upward several times before. The claimant testified that he could “peck around with a hoe,” and had done a little gardening for neighbors, but that he soon gave out and did not
As will be seen from the above statement, the claimant and his wife were both vague and indefinite in their testimony. Also, a contradictory inference could have been drawn from the testimony of another witness. Furthermore, the commission had the right to consider the physical appearance of the claimant as he attended upon the trial. In these circumstances, we can not say that the commission’s finding was unauthorized. The decisions in Hambright v. Western & Atlantic R. Co., 112 Ga. 36 (37 S. E. 99), and Western & Atlantic R. Co. v. Beason, 112 Ga. 553 (37 S. E. 863), cited for the claimant,' did not contemplate such a state of evidence as appears in the present record. See, in this connection, Whiddon v. Hall, 155 Ga. 570 (6) (118 S. E. 347); Blount v. Dunlap, 34 Ga. App. 666 (4) (130 S. E. 693); Southern Ry. Co. v. Brock, 132 Ga. 858 (7) (54 S. E. 1083); 10 R. C. L. 991, 1001; 22 C. J. 787.
Judgment affirmed.