Hamilton v. Pennsylvania R. R.

Per Curiam,

This is an appeal from a judgment affirming the workmen’s compensation authorities’ award to plaintiff for injuries alleged to have been sustained by him as the result of an accident in defendant’s machine shop, where he was employed as a drill press worker.

The evidence shows that Hamilton, who testified that he was in good health at the time, in the course of his employment lifted and changed the position of an iron coupler yoke, weighing between 175 and 200 pounds; that, while lifting this weight, he was seized with a severe pain in the back which he described as “a twist,…