S. H. Kress Company v. Burkes

ADAMS, J.:

The question presented by this appeal is whether appellee sustained an injury by accident as defined by your Workmen’s Compensation Act.

Appellee was working in a bakery mixing dough, baking bread and scrubbing pans. About a year before the hearing she began to suffer pain in her hands and noticed some knots forming on the back of her hands. The knots enlarged gradually; she bandaged her hands but they did not improve.

She sustained no blow to her hands; did not remember the day the knots first appeared; she felt pain and then noticed the knots. The examining physician testified:

“The…