Johnson v. Northwestern Veneer & Plywood Corp.

The appeal in this workmen’s compensation case presents 2 questions, one fairly easy to dispose of, the other more difficult. The first question grows out of the claim on appeal of the defendant employer and its insurance carrier that there was no competent testimony below to sustain the award of the appeal board (reversing the hearing referee) finding and holding that the claimed disability of the workman, up to the date of the last hearing before the referee, was due to his original injury of August 7, 1951, for which he had already claimed and without contest been paid intermittent…