Woods v. Safeway System, Inc.

This is an appeal by an employer from a decree of the workmen’s compensation commission affirming •a decree of a single commissioner wlm on an original petition for benefits under the act found that the employee, a furniture mover, had sustained a compensable injury to his hip and back.

Because the employer’s contention that the record fails to disclose a causal relationship between the incident and the subsequent disability is dispositive, we refer only to the portion of the record relating to that issue.

It there appears that petitioner underwent an operation to his hip when he was fourteen…