Williams v. White

TATE, Judge.

The only question for appellate consideration herein is whether the plaintiff employee’s disability from an accident of June 15, 1955, persisted beyond October 31, 1955. He appeals from the District Court’s award to him of workmen’s compensation benefits to the latter date only, claiming total and permanent disability.

While lifting lumber at work on June 15, 1955, plaintiff Williams sustained a lumbo-sacral strain, tie was subsequently hospitalized and in traction for six days, and under medical treatment for about six weeks. X-rays showed the presence of a spondyolisthesis, or a…