Claim of Katz v. Francis H. Leggett & Co.

Appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Claimant worked as a helper on a grocery truck. He testified that on January 23 or 24, 1950, he bent down to the floor of the truck to pick up a ease of groceries and that as he did this the truck stopped suddenly, jerked, and he “felt a pain” in his chest. He continued to work, however, the rest of the week, but every time he bent down to pick up a case “ I felt a pain ”. *754He told a cardiac specialist that on Friday, January 27th, while “lifting a heavy crate ” there was a “ sudden increase ” of the pain in the left side of…