Mertz v. Mellon National Bank & Trust Co.

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

Carrie Mertz, a workmen’s compensation claimant, has here appealed an adjudication of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board sustaining a referee’s decision terminating her total disability benefits.

The claimant’s duties as a distribution clerk for Mellon National Bank & Trust Company consisted of gathering and delivering files and other papers on desks of other employes of the bank. In September of 1958, more than three and a half years after she began her employment, the appellant claimed to have injured her back while twisting to lift a file from a desk. In April,…