Rutledge v. County of Passaic

Delaney, C. P. J.

This is an appeal from the Workmen’s Compensation Bureau. The finding there was in favor of the petitioner. The facts, briefly, are these: The petitioner, employed by the County of Passaic as a court attendant, while in the performance of his duties, assisted in carrying the clerk of the court (who had become prostrate as the result of some muscular disturbance) to a nearby automobile and thence to a doctor’s office. While lifting the stricken clerk into the automobile, the petitioner experienced a severe pain in the right groin. The pain continued, and upon his return to the…