Blair v. Procon, Inc.

BOLIN, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment rejecting his workmen’s compensation claim for total and permanent disability benefits against his\employer, Procon, Incorporated and its insurer, Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York.

Appellant alleges he was accidentally injured while performing work for Procon in January 1963. He testified that while he was welding on a tank top he jerked his welding cable which “was hung on the side of the tank”; that his foot slipped and he fell in a strained position causing an injury to his back.

The only other witness testifying relative to the…