Sayers v. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment in a workmen’s compensation case. Claimant was an employee of the respondent company. One of his duties was to attach pipes to railway tank cars so that their cargoes of caustic could be unloaded. One morning, on July 22,1929, he climbed on top of such a car, and in loosening certain large nuts to uncap the car he slipped and fell to the ground and injured his right arm. Defendant’s superintendent sent him to the hospital, where his arm was treated and bandaged. From day to day and later two or three times a…