Mauch v. Bennett & Brown Lumber Co.

Plaintiff testified that on or about January 1, 1924, while employed as a logger, a canthook fell on his foot, bruising a great toe which soon thereafter was frozen. He froze no other part of his body. A physician testified;

“He would not have frozen the toe, in all probability, if he had not received the injury and disturbed the normal circulation.”

Gangrene, operation, and resulting disability followed. An award of compensation is reviewed on certiorari.

That the disability was due to freezing and not to an accident within the meaning of the act. Doubtless the gangrene, the operation, and the…