Allen v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Wertz, J.:

This was a workmens compensation case. The commissioner, in a well-reasoned and legally annotated opinion, found and concluded that claimant (appellant) met with personal injury by accident when he suffered a catch in his back as he was talking to his foreman, that the injury arose out of and in the course of his employment with respondent and claimant was entitled to compensation therefor. On review of the record of evidence taken by the commissioner, the trial court reversed and vacated the commissioner’s award to claimant, finding that…