McCulloch v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.

The commissioner’s finding discloses that the claimant’s decedent, her husband, was employed by the respondent as a traveling salesman; on January 16th, 1925, while passing along a public highway in Bridgeport for the purpose of calling on a prospective customer, he slipped on some ice and fell striking the lower part of his back, his head and his elbows; he was treated by his family physician, returned to work early in February, and continued until March 17th, when he stopped because of headaches and inability to sleep. On March 23d he became partially unconscious, lost his power of speech…