Keefer v. State Industrial Accident Commission

The plaintiff, Boyd L. Keefer, on August 23, 1940, while employed by Kingsley Lumber Company in Multnomah county, Oregon, sustained, according to the allegations of the complaint that are admitted by the answer, “a personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of said employment by violent or accidental means as follows, to-wit: While pushing lumber into a car, using a roller, plaintiff stepped back to brace himself, when he stepped upon a knot or some object on the floor which threw him sideways and down, wrenching his right knee.” At the time of the accident both the employer…