Redfern v. Sparks-Withington Co.

Defendants appeal from an order of the workmen’s compensation appeal board reversing the hearing referee and granting plaintiff “$28 per week from April 29, 1953, and until the further order of the department.”

Appellants contend that the accident did not cause a direct injury to plaintiff’s nervous system; that plaintiff’s mental or emotional disturbance was collateral to the injury; that the appeal board could not make a continuing award where plaintiff had not testified as to her condition for 21 months previous to such award; that the appeal board erred in granting plaintiff leave to take…