Lendall's Case

The employee’s claim for incapacity from an injury sustained October 17, 1953, was filed on May 8, 1968. The reviewing board, adopting in part and modifying in part the decision of the single member, and awarding compensation, found inter alia: the employee injured her back by a fall from a chair while hanging draperies in the insured’s house where she was employed to do general housework and this was the precipitating cause of the 1958 incapacity; the insured had contemporaneous knowledge of the accident; there was reasonable cause for delay in filing the claim; the insurer was not…