Vassar v. Swift & Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

In a workmen’s compensation case the plaintiffs recovered a judgment for $2,964 for the death of John Vassar. The defendant appeals.

The deceased, who was 53 years of age at the time of his death, had been in the employ of Swift & Company for eleven years; his work was loading refrigerator cars. It is claimed that his duties required him to lift heavy pieces of beef and that in doing so he strained his side, and because of the low temperature of the car, contracted pleurisy, which resulted in his death. The answer was a general denial.

The…