Spears v. Brown Paper Mill Co.

In this suit plaintiff seeks an award of workmen's compensation on the theory that while performing the duties imposed by a contract of hiring with the defendant, Brown Paper Mill Company, Inc., he suffered an accident within the meaning of the Employers' Liability Law from which resulted permanent total disability. He alleges that it was his duty to oil certain machinery in a wood room and to lift from the floor and place upon a chute or carrier heavy pieces of timber or wood which had fallen therefrom; that on or about August 25, 1939, while on duty and in the act of lifting a heavy piece…