Jarvis's Case

This is an appeal from a decree entered in the Superior Court under the workmen’s compensation act awarding compensation to the claimant for afi injury to his back which, he contends, arose out of and in the course of his employment. At the hearing before the board member of the Industrial Accident Board he testified that previously to March 5, 1930, when the alleged injury was received, he had been employed as a stableman; that at the time of the hearing he was sixty-nine years of age; that on the night of the alleged injury he went to work at six o’clock and did not get through until nine…