Kavanaugh v. Atlas Tack Corp.

HILL, Judge.

The question here is whether the evidence before the Workmen’s Compensation Board was so positive and persuasive as to require a finding by the Board that the appellant’s claimed injury arose out of and in the course of his employment. The Board found it did not, and on appeal to the circuit court the finding and order of the Board were affirmed.

Appellant, a 26-year-old father, had been working 8 years for the appellee, a self-insured company, when, as he claims, on October 14, 1965, he received a back injury while lifting 100-pound kegs of nails or tacks. He filed application for…