Davis v. Martin

GLADNEY, Judge.

Plaintiff has appealed from a judgment rejecting his demands for workmen’s compensation benefits. Made defendants are J. K. Martin, doing business as J. K. Martin Pulpwood Company, and Martin’s workmen’s compensation insurer, Southern Pulpwood Insurance Company.

The petitioner, Burney Davis, Jr., a twenty-five year old Negro alleged that while engaged in loading pulpwood for the Martin company on Friday, June 3, 1960, he sustained an accidental injury resulting in a right inguinal hernia. Defendants deny the employee sustained such an accident in the course of his employment,…