Bowen v. Tar Products Corp.

The petitioner in this case testifies that he met with an accident when wheeling a wheelbarrow down some planks, while in the course of his employment; that the accident consisted of a sprain which was given to his back by the drop of the wheelbarrow while wheeling it down the plank. In his petition, however, he states the cause of the injury to have been that, after stoking the fires, he *159went out into the yard of the respondent corporation to ring a clock and was seized with a violent .pain in his back, and the character and extent of said injuries were strain of the muscles of the lumbar…