Peoria Motors, Inc. v. Industrial Commission

This is an appeal from a decision of the circuit court of Peoria County confirming an Industrial Commission determination that an injury suffered by claimant was not causally connected with his employment at Peoria Hydromatic Specialists, Inc., the second of claimant’s two employers, but was a recurrence of an earlier injury which arose out of and in the course of his job with his first employer, Peoria Motors, Inc. We affirm the decision below.

On February 24, 1978, claimant, Edgar Patton, while at work for appellant Peoria Motors, felt a sharp pain in his lower back which went down both…