Meredith v. Seymour Packing Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment in a workmen’s compensation case.

It appears that for more than ten years the claimant had been employed as an ice puller at the respondent’s packing plant in Topeka. On November 1, 1932, he was engaged in handling cakes of ice which weighed about 300 pounds. In the course of this work, according to his testimony, the ice tongs slipped and he nearly fell down, and in catching himself he received a severe jerk. When he straightened up he felt an awful pain in the region of the heart, and thereafter he had…