Transport Indemnity Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission

WOOD (Fred B.), J.

The employer's insurance carrier claims the evidence does not support the respondent commission’s finding that the employee’s injury resulted in temporary total disability. The

The employee, a truck driver, sustained an injury to Ms lower back on May 10, 1956, when attempting to lift the tailgate of his truck preparatory to picking up a load of gravel. He had been hauling sacks of cement with the tailgate down.

He received compensation and medical treatment until November, in December, 1956, applied to the commission for adjustment of his claim. At the hearing in March, 1957,…