Murch-Jarvis Company, Inc. v. Townsend

This is an appeal from the judgment of the Sebastian circuit court affirming an award made by the Workmen’s Compensation Commission in favor of appellee, Eobert A. Townsend, for temporary, total disability suffered by appellee in June, 1944, while engaged in the employ of appellant, Murch-Jarvis Co., Inc., in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Appellee began work for the company in November, 1943, as a labor foreman in construction work. In April or May, 1944, he was assigned the duty of making an excavation in a room of a zinc smelter for the purpose of installing a tank. There were two or three belts…