Swanson v. American Hoist & Derrick Co.

Henry M. Gallagher, Chief Justice.

Certiorari to review a decision of the industrial commission awarding compensation and medical benefits to an injured employe. The decision of the commission, one commissioner dissenting, reversed an order of the referee disallowing claimant’s petition.

August B. Swanson, the injured employe, was 48 years old at the time of the accident here involved. He had been employed by the American Hoist & Derrick Company as “a first class handy man” since 1917. Aside from having pneumonia when a child and two hernia operations, one in 1921 and one in 1932, he had never…