Zeigale's Case

This is an appeal by an employee from a final decree entered in the Superior Court dismissing his claim for compensation under the workmen’s compensation act.

There was evidence that the employee for one and one half to two years prior to his discharge in March, 1948, was engaged in pushing heavy trucks of various sizes, usually loaded with materials weighing from four hundred to seven hundred pounds. Before he began work for this employer, he had been examined and found to be in good physical condition. He was found to be suffering from varicose veins in his left leg when, in February, 1948,…