Claim of Schun v. U. S. O. Camp Shows, Inc.

Appeal by the Special Fund for Reopened Cases under section 25-a from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. The claimant was employed as a dancer with the IT. S. 0. in the South Pacific on February 15, 1945 when during a rehearsal he experienced a pain in his back while lifting another dancer and collapsed with the other dancer falling upon him. X rays of his back revealed spondylolisthesis, a congenital condition. The claimant finished the tour in October and filed a claim in November, 1845. In February, 1946 the case was closed until the claimant should request a…