Sprague v. Industrial Accident Commission

Petitioner seeks annulment of an order of the respondent commission dismissing her “Petition for Increased Disability Rating, ’ ’ which order was made upon the ground of “want of jurisdiction.”

Petitioner, a witness, was suffering from a preexisting, progressive “congenital defect in the fifth lumbar process associated with a spondylolisthesis,” at the time that she fell to a sitting position on January 1, 1949. She did not immediately “notice any particular pain,” and she continued her work until the following month. Since leaving her work, there has been a serious dispute as to whether her…