Johnson v. Armour & Company

Certiorari on the relation of employer to review the decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission awarding compensation. Employer challenges the commission’s finding that the employee’s disability was caused by her employment.

The employee had worked for Armour & Company since 1951. In 1964 she was transferred from Kansas City, Kansas, to Worthington, Minnesota, where she worked as a meat trimmer. Pier duties at Worthington required her to stand on a metal grating over a concrete floor for as long as 10 hours a day, 5 days a week.

Employee suffers from congenital foot deformities described…