Harvey v. Gifford, Hill Co.

Plaintiff sues to recover workman's compensation. He alleges that while performing the duties of his employment with the defendant, on December 31, 1942, he lifted and moved a short distance a piece of railroad steel twenty feet long, weighing one hundred fifty pounds, and from the strain incident thereto the third, fourth and fifth lumbar vertebrae were fractured; that the joints, muscles and nerves in and about the sacro-iliac region were injured and impaired and arthritis has developed; and that said fractures and injuries produced, from the date of the accident, total disability to…