Cardenas v. Peterson Bean Co.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The district court affirmed an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Court sitting en banc granting the plaintiff compensation for an extended period of temporary total disability, medical expense, and for 5 percent permanent partial disability.

The plaintiff, Ramon Cardenas, an employee of Peterson Bean Co., hereinafter referred to- as defendant, was injured January 17, 1964, when he fell from a plank walkway while pushing a wheelbarrow into a railroad boxcar. The wheelbarrow was loaded with 100-pound sacks of beans and he fell approximately 6 feet. Some…