Industrial Commission v. Klaff

The plaintiff in error seeks a reversal of this case upon two grounds: (1) That there is no evidence tending to show that the accidental injury on August 27, 1924, caused or had any relation to the disease of tuberculosis which thereafter developed. (2) That the judgment for $3,000 for medical and hospital expenses, etc., was contrary to law.

The greater part of the briefs of counsel is confined to the issue whether the disease of tuberculosis, from which the applicant now suffers, was caused by the lifting of heavy steel rails upon the car, as claimed by him, or whether, as claimed by the…