Davis v. Asquini & American Casualty Co.

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

On December 30, 1929, Sidney L. Davis, the claimant in this Workmen’s Compensation Case, while engaged in the course of his employment as a carpenter with John Asquini, accidentally fell a distance of about sixteen feet from a scaffold. In the language of Dr. C. A. Duffy, the physician who first saw him, his injuries were: “A compound comminuted fracture of the left tibia and fibula above the ankle and a crush ing type of fracture of the right oscalcis — heel bone.”

The parties, including the employer’s insurance carrier, entered into an open agreement, on January 20,…