Fleming v. Appleton Co.

StukES, Justice.

Respondent was awarded workmen’s compensation for total disability and from affirmance by the Court of Common Pleas the employer and its insurance carrier have ap-' pealed upon the grounds that there was no proof of injury by accident and, on the contrary, the evidence establishes that respondent’s disability is due to disease.

He had been employed in other departments of the appellant cotton mill and was transferred about Nov. 1, 1945 to the trucking department where heavy boxes of cotton goods, weighing up to six or seven hundred pounds, were pushed by respondent and others…