Brajan v. Oliver Iron Mining Co.

Certiorari to review a decision of the industrial commission disallowing relator compensation for an alleged accidental injury suffered in the course of his employment.

On January 8, 1929, relator, a man about 42 years old working for defendant in one of its mines and who with three others was erect ing timbers to support the roof or overhead in a drift, had occasion to lift or hold one end of a cap timber 8y2 or 9 feet long weighing about 300 pounds. As he thus lifted on the timber a sharp pain passed through his left groin producing a feeling as if he were “crazy or drunk,” according to his…