Towle v. Department of Transportation, State Highway

Petitioner Towle, for two previous years during the period from April to October, had operated a power broom or street sweeper, without suffering any incapacitating accident. True, when interviewed by Dr. Thomas Martin, Jr. in connection with his physical disablement of April 13, 1972, Towle related that he had experienced shoulder and back pains during the last month (September) of the 1971 seasonal operation of the sweeper, but daily massages had kept the pain under control and, following his shift to his winter duties, the malaise had disappeared. When he resumed work on the sweeper in…