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Show COURT BACKS STAND OF INDUSTRIAL BOARD State iuprem court Friday upheld up-held the state industrial commission in declarinf Ephraim Johnson, injured in-jured in Utah Construction company com-pany work at Henefer October 1, 1933, entitled only to permanent partial disability under the state compensation act. The court. In a decision written by Chief Justice W. H. FolLand, found that Mr. Johnson was not permanently per-manently and totally disabled as he had contended in contesting an industrial in-dustrial commission ruling. The commission had allowed Mr. Johnson medical and hospital treatment and $16 a week for 200 weeks, the maximum weekly pay-! pay-! merit for such cases. I The commission had held that Mr. 'Johnson's disability consisted of 75 per cent loss of function in the right I arm at the shoulder and 25 per cent I loss In the left arm at the shoulder. |