Stone v. Arthur Hewitt Designs, Inc.

STEWART, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Jefferson Circuit Court which set aside an award of compensation to appellant, Mary Stone, and remanded the proceeding to the Workmen’s Compensation Board with instructions to apportion the disability between an old leg injury suffered by appellant some twenty years ago and an injury of August 13, 1959, for which she claims compensation.

On August 13, 1959, appellant, aged 37 and a “forelady” at Arthur Hewitt Designs, Inc., in Louisville, while descending a flight of stairs at her place of employment, slipped, fell backwards, and…