Rose v. Acme Wrecking Co.

MONTGOMERY, Judge.

The dispositive question is whether the circuit court was justified in setting aside the Workmen’s Compensation Board’s award because of the insufficiency of evidence to support it.

Cecil Rose had worked for the Acme Wrecking Company for some three years when, he claims, he suffered an injury to his back while lifting a garage door. He has a fourth-grade education and is untrained and unskilled to earn a living except by the doing of manual labor. The Board found that “as a result of the traumatic injury the plaintiff (Rose) sustained on March 3, 1965, the plaintiff suffered…