Young v. Herrington

Russell Young was employed as fireman and janitor at an apartment house. While so employed he yrrenched or strained his back. For this he sought and received compensation for temporary partial disability from respondent State Insurance Fund, insurance carrier for his employer Mrs. Edwin Herrington.

Three years later Mr. Young petitioned for a modification of the above award on the ground of changed physical condition, contending the injury to his back aggravated and accelerated a tubercular condition of his spine, and had caused a crushing of the two vertebrae of the lumbar region and that he…