Siedlik v. Swift & Co.

Landis, District Judge.

This action arises under the workmen’s compensation law. Appellant Bronislawa Siedlik seeks to recover compensation for the death of her husband Stanley Siedlik from his employer Swift & Company, appellee.

The deceased, while working in appellee’s cold storage room, piling barrels of meat, and wearing shoes with thick wooden soles, jumped down from a height of about three and one-half feet onto the cement floor. He complained that he had “jumped wrong,” rubbed his leg and thereafter limpingly went over to other work where he was not required to lift. He continued his…