Stewart v. Brant

From the undisputed facts as developed by the evidence I find that the petitioner, Katherine Stewart, met with an accident on August 12th, 1938, as she was performing housework in the respondents’ home at 304 Brook avenue, North Plainfield, New Jersey. The injury consisted of a sprain of the lower back caused by lifting a heavy sofa while cleaning the respondents’ living room. She testified that she was seized with a sharp sudden pain in the lower region of her back and that she lay helpless on the floor in a semi-collapse condition until she was assisted by the respondent Mildred T. Brant to…