Lyons v. Industrial Commission

This is an appeal from a ruling of the circuit court of Cook County confirming the Industrial Commission’s decision that Giles Lyons had suffered no accident. The issues on appeal are whether that judgment is against the manifest weight of the evidence, whether proper notice of an accident was given, and whether Lyons is permanently and totally disabled.

Lyons was a bus driver for Greyhound Lines for 33 years. In 1961 he had suffered a mild back injury for which he received a back brace, but he wore this only occasionally in response to pain and could recall no instance of such pain more…