Surratt v. Otoe Food Products Co.

The plaintiff, Katherine Surratt, filed her petition in the workmen’s compensation court July 6, 1943, alleging in substance that on September 11, 1939, she received personal injuries arising out of and in the course of her employment with the defendant as an attendant on a sorting machine; that the nature and extent of the injury received was a herniated intervertebral disc on the left side of her back resulting in permanent disability; that the employer had knowledge of the injury on March 12, 1943; and prayed for such relief as the workmen’s compensation law afforded her. The answer was a…