Holmes's Case

On July 21, 1927, the employee, Mark E. Holmes, while upon his employer’s premises was injured. He testified that just before one o’clock on the day of his *308injury he was sitting on a block of wood at the back door of the shop where he was employed, “and in less than five minutes ‘something overcome me ’ and he fell out the door on to the railroad track, a distance of about nine feet,” receiving an injury to his right hip. In reply to a question as to what kind of a feeling came over him as he fell, he testified that he did not understand it; that he did not know whether or not it was…