Crispin v. Leedom Worrall Co. (Et Al.)

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Schaffer,

In this workmen’s compensation case, we allowed an appeal from the Superior Court where an award was made in claimant’s favor.

The facts essential to the determination of defendant’s liability are these: Claimant, a laborer in defendant’s warehouse, fifty-eight years of age, was engaged with another employee in pushing from an electric elevator a truck weighing with its load approximately 1800 pounds. Because of the weight of the truck and its contents, the elevator, operated by automatic con trol, came to rest, according to claimant’s estimate, an inch to…