Newell v. Workmen's Compensation Bureau

The compensation bureau awarded compensation from December 28th, 1928, to February 10th, 1931, a period of one hundred and ten weeks and four days, at $20 a week.

Burton Kipple, age sixty-six, filed Ms application for compensation. lie based his claim upon the fact that while in the course of Ms employment he raised a can of ashes and got a sharp pain in his back.

Kipple having died before the hearing before the commissioner, the only testimony of the occurrence is by a fellow-workman, Peter Leone, whose pertinent testimony is as follows: “We got half way up the steps and he hurt his hack-lie…