Weitz v. Johnson

This is an appeal from a workmen’s compensation award made by the district court. The plaintiff alleged that he was an employee of the defendant company and received personal injuries as the result of an accident in the course of his employment, and prayed for compensation. The answer was, in effect, a general denial. The trial court found that the injury sustained by plaintiff was “to his upper lumbar and lower thoracic vertebrae, causing and producing *453extensive paralysis of his lower limbs, bowels and bladder, and loss of function of nerves and muscles of his body, extending downward from…