Claim of Prentice v. Weeks

The employer and carrier appeal from a disability ■' award for the period July 21 to October 4, 1932. Claimant, while working for the employer herein, on June 15, 1931, fell about twenty feet, fractured a vertebra and injured his left thigh and knee. He received treatment in a hospital. An examination in March, 1932, disclosed a flabby musculature of the left thigh *228with some atrophy, fluid in the left knee and tenderness about the patellar ligament. On June 2, 1932, the left knee was operated upon. The employer paid compensation without awaiting an award, and continued it from the date of the…