Collins v. Permanente Metals Corporation

The plaintiff, Willie Collins, during the month of March, 1948 was employed as a common laborer by the defendant, Permanente Metals Corporation, and alleged that while so employed on April 1, 1948 he suffered an accident which rendered him totally and permanently disabled to do work of any reasonable character as a result of his accident and injury; plaintiff alleged that the accident occurred at about ten o'clock a.m. on the first day of April, 1948 when he lifted the handles of a wheelbarrow loaded with dirt, and in so doing, strained his right side causing what he later discovered to be a…