Marx v. Industrial Commission

The sole question before us goes to the issue as to whether or not appellant’s present disability of degenerative osteoarthritis was aggravated or accelerated by the injury he incurred on December 1, 1954.

The appellant, Roy W. Marx, was forty-seven years of age, weighed 137 pounds, and was five feet, three inches tall, on December 1, 1954, the date of the alleged injury. Roy W. Marx became employed by the Hurd Millwork Corporation, Medford, Wisconsin, as a general laborer in September, 1954. Prior to December 1, 1954, Roy Marx had suffered no injuries or pain, or was ever confined to a…