Guerrette v. Fraser Paper, Limited

ARCHIBALD, Justice.

This is an appeal from a pro forma decree of the Superior Court which adopted a decree of the Industrial Accident Commission denying compensation to Mr. Guerrette. We deny the appeal.

Mr. Guerrette claimed that while in the employ of Fraser Paper, Limited, and during the course of that employment, he accidentally injured his back. He testified that while climbing a ladder to close malfunctioning elevator doors he attempted to reach these doors, slipped and fell some “three or four feet” to a cement floor, landing on his back. Some twenty months thereafter an orthopedic…