Eastern Shore Public Service Co. v. Young

The trial judge, sitting without a jury, allowed the employee, Young, workmen’s compensation, reversing the Accident Commission which had found that no claim for compensation had been filed within a year of disability; and the employer and insurer appeal.

On April 6, 1953, Young first felt the back and leg pains-which led to a disk operation in August 1954 and to his claim for compensation, filed in October 1954. In the course of his-work for an electric light company, he was walking in a circle on uneven ground pushing a long bar inserted in a ground anchor, when he felt a kink in his back…