Beelman v. Boice Bird & Sons

Plaintiff, an industrial painter, fell from a scaffold in November of 1961 while in the employ of defendant Boice Bird & Sons sustaining a fracture of his left heel. Plaintiff also complained that his right ankle and back hurt. Such injuries caused him to miss two weeks of work for which defendant Boice Bird & Sons made voluntary compensation payments. He returned to work briefly, but was forced to leave in January of 1962 because he found climbing and moving heavy scaffolds too strenuous.

Having left Boice Bird, plaintiff commenced working as a residential painter for his brother, defendant…