Employers Mutual Liability Insurance v. Holloway

Townsend, Judge.

On the date that the claimant in this workmen’s compensation case allegedly suffered a herniated disc, accompanied by sharp pain and occurring as he was making a turn with a wheelbarrow loaded with bricks, he continued to work until quitting time and made no> complaint to his superiors. He did not return to> work thereafter except to bring his foreman the following report signed by an attending physician: “This certifies I have attended John Holloway, 5-15-57 and 5-16-57. He has chronic low-back strain. He will also require several weeks absence from heavy lifting.” The…