Hillman v. Northwest Fruit, Inc.

Loring, Justice.

This case comes here by writ of certiorari to review a denial of an award to the employe-relator by the industrial commission.

August 3, 1938, the relator was employed by the Northwest Fruit, Inc. at its place of business in Minneapolis. On that day he was engaged in arranging cases of oranges in the refrigerator room and asserts that he was lifting one of the boxes which weighed 65 or 70 pounds when he felt a sharp pain in the abdomen. He dropped the box and fell to the floor, where he lay until a felloAv employe came to his relief. He says that he lay there holding his side…