Carberry v. Reitz Furniture Co.

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

This is a workmen’s compensation case. Pearl CarTberry was employed by the Reitz Furniture Company as a general handy man. On August 26, 1935, while in the course of his employment standing on an upper rung of a ladder, he fell a distance of fifteen feet striking his side on a pile of planks and then landed on a 'concrete floor. He sustained fractures ’ of the first rib on his right side and the radius near the left wrist, lacerations on his head and chest, and bruises on both knees.

Under an agreement compensation for total disability “was paid by the employer to March…