Rock's Case

On April 20, 1943, the employee was working for the New England Wood Heel Company at Amesbury. On that day, when the Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company was the insurer, the employee received a strain in his back in lifting a heavy iron "transfer,” which caused him to be out of work for six weeks, for which the insurer paid him compensation. He continued to suffer from pains in his back, and was out of work therefrom at various periods in the winter of 1943-1944, in the fall of 1944, in the fall of 1945, and in the early part of 1946. On May-27, *4291946, while working for the Arnold Wood Heel…