Baker v. Industrial Commission

HENRIOD, Chief Justice:

Review of a denial of compensation to claimant who sustained a ruptured interver-tebral disc, on the ground that the injury did not occur in the course of or arise out of her employment.

Claimant, H. Aleen Baker, was employed by Young Brokerage as a clerk-typist. On Friday, May 8, 1964, about 4 p. m., while filing papers in the bottom drawer of a filing cabinet, she felt a sudden sharp pain in her left hip and leg as she “stooped over or raised up.” Thinking it was a temporary pain, she continued working without reporting it. She experienced pain during the weekend, but…