Waites v. Briggs Manufacturing Co.

This is an appeal by defendants from an award of compensation made to plaintiff. The facts in so far as they pertain to the happening of the claimed accident are not in dispute.

On January 2, 1936, plaintiff was employed as a bench worker in the sewing room in the Meldrnm plant of the defendant Briggs Manufacturing Company. Her work consisted of tying threads on inside automobile door panels while seated at a table. These inside door panels were made of cardboard with cloth sewed on them and each panel weighed from 3V2 to 4 pounds. It was the duty of another employee to lift the panels from a…