Lambert v. First National Stores, Inc.

This employee’s original petition for workmen’s compensation and his subsequent motion seeking permission to have an operation for a lumbar disc performed at the expense of the respondent employer were heard separately and were granted by a single commissioner. On appeals therefrom to the full commission, a decree was entered in each proceeding affirming the findings and decree of the single commissioner. The case is before us on the employer’s appeal from each of these decrees.

It appears that the petitioner in January 1953 while working with respondent’s store manager was lifting cases of…