Olson v. Griffin Wheel Co.

1 Reported in 15 N.W.2d 511. On February 7, 1929, Albert C. Olson (referred to as relator, though now deceased), then 55 years of age, while employed as an iron molder by respondent, was injured when a freight elevator dropped and caught his left foot and heel, tearing off the heel cord and the os calcis and fracturing the posterior portion of the latter.

An operation was performed, the tendon Achilles being repaired and the wound sewed up; but after several days the wound sloughed and gangrenous infection set in. Relator was hospitalized until April 20, 1929, and then taken to his home, where…