Ætna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Chandler

Claimant’s husband, a young man 27 years of age, weighing 175 pounds, and apparently strong and able-bodied, was working at his regular job with the Chicopee Mills, driving a truck and lifting into it garbage and ash cans weighing approximately 150 to 200 pounds. He had with him a helper. About three o’clock in the afternoon of January 18th, just after he and his helper had placed the eighteenth can upon the truck, he complained that his head “was killing him.” He “said he believed he had hurt himself.” He had made no previous complaint. He sat down in the truck and after it started he fell…