General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corp. v. Industrial Commission

The defendant Larkin was employed as athletic director by the defendant Athletic Club, his duties requiring him to engage in all branches of athletic work. He was injured on February 10, 1933, when he stumbled in stepping from one mat to another while carrying a weight over his head. Fie felt a pain in the middle of his back and down his spine at the time of the accident. Subsequently he grew weak and finally quit work on March 24, 1933. His case was diagnosed as osteoarthritis of the spine with encroachments of spurs of bone upon the spinal cord. The question of fact principally litigated…