McCray v. Yarbrough

This is a compensation suit in which plaintiff seeks to recover for total and permanent disability, resulting from accidental injury in the course of his employment.

On or about the 20th day of December, 1940, while employed as a common laborer, plaintiff was engaged in a grading operation on a construction job of the defendant employer. According to plaintiff's testimony, he was using a mallet for the purpose of grading down high places, filling in low places, and, generally leveling off the lot upon which the construction was taking place. While wielding the mallet, the instrument struck…