Southwestern Light & Power Co. v. Gossett

CULLISO'N, Y. C. J.

On March 11, 1931, claimant, R. E. Gossett, filed with the State Industrial Commission his first notice of injury and claim for compensation, alleging therein that on June 17, 1930, while employed by the Southwestern Light & Power Company, he sustained an accidental personal injury while helping carry a heavy pole used in the building of a high line. That the pole was some 30 feet in length and between 1,000 and 1,500 pounds in weight, and while carrying the same over rough ground with the aid of five or six other men, claimant wrenched his back. Said claimant alleges that…