Wierman v. Tunnell

Roy J. Tunnell, defendant in error, presented a claim for compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, for personal injuries resulting from an accident arising out of and in the course of his. employment June 10, 1938. Upon the date mentioned he was struck by some sacks of grain which fell from a hand-truck used in his employer’s warehouse. Thereafter he was in a hospital for about 18 days, where “head traction” was immediately applied, followed by the installation of a cast. X-ray plates disclosed “a small spicule of bone fractured off the anterior superior surface of the body of the…