Wilk v. the Budd Company

Opinion by

Wright, J.,

This is a workmen’s compensation case. In his claim petition appellee alleged two accidents, the first when he slipped and fell while piling steel in March 1947, and the second when he slipped and fell while lifting heavy bundles on February 13, 1951. He alleged injury to the fourth and fifth lumbar discs requiring laminectomy. Both the Beferee and the Board found as a fact that appellee did have the second accident on February 13, 1951, but refused compensation on the ground that the disability was caused by the first accident. The testimony discloses that, following the…