Stump v. Norfolk Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Corp.

This is an appeal from an award of the Industrial Commission denying compensation on the ground that the claimant had refused to accept proffered medical attention. Code, 1942 (Michie), section 1887(26).

The claimant, Stump, was employed by Norfolk Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corporation, herein called the employer, as a tool checker. He worked in the tool room and his job was to hand out tools to other employees. While so engaged he struck his shin bone on a steel wheel puller, which caused a small bruise at the site of an old fracture. In his evidence the claimant said this happened on…