Davis v. Lotz

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Donges, J.

Defendant, thirty years of age, had been employed at the ice plant of prosecutor for about nine years, cutting and selling ice, and doing other work. Defendant had suffered several injuries prior to an injury alleged to have been sustained by him on August 1st, 1937, but none was of serious nature and they are not asserted to have any relation to his present condition. He claims that at 4:30 3?. m. on August 1st, 1937, in the course of his employment, while carrying a fourteen feet long ladder, he tripped and fell from a platform a distance…