Greene v. W & W GENERATOR REBUILDERS

Relators, employer and insurer, seek review of a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission awarding benefits to respondent-employee. They challenge the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the commission’s findings that the employer had knowledge of the injury within the 90-day period required by Minn. St. 176.141 1 and that the employee sustained an injury that arose out of and in the course of employment.

Employee has suffered from tuberculosis since 1938. His condition, progressive degeneration of the hips and spine, is commonly called Pott’s disease and required hip fusions in…