Claim of Van Ness v. American Stores Co.

This is an appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board b^sed upon a finding of a 25% mild disability resulting from an accident which becurred on October 15, 1956. There is no dispute that on October 15, 1956 the claimant fell while unloading a heavy piece of meat from the employer’s truck and thereby suffered a lumbar sprain. It further appears that claimant did hot lose any wages until April of 1957 when he quit his job, but that for some four months after the accident he did no heavy lifting. In April of 1957 he quit his job with the employer and became…