Hall v. Pittman Constr. Co.

This is a workmen’s compensation claim filed by the appellant for total disability assertedly resulting from his having fallen from a tractor on October 27,1959. The commission denied the claim on the ground that the claimant had not met the burden of proving that his disability, which manifested itself in January of 1961, was attributable to the accident that had occurred fifteen months earlier. The circuit court upheld the commission’s decision.

According to the medical testimony the tractor accident aggravated an existing degenerative condition in the disc between two of the vertebrae in…