Charles A. Stewart Company v. Dobson

ADAMS, J.:

This appeal brings for review a judgment of the circuit court which approved an award of compensation to appellee by the Industrial Commission.

The circuit court found, as did the Industrial Commission, that appellee sustained an accident on November 19, 1941, while attempting to lift and load a field box of citrus fruit on a moving truck. The claim was contested chiefly because there was no accident on November 19, 1941, and also because the disability was directly attributable to claimant’s falling from an orange tree while picking fruit for appellant in April 1938. The circuit…