North American Refractories Co. v. Jackson

WADDILL, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment upholding an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. The hoard found that appellee, William Jackson, sustained a traumatic injury by accident on December 29, 1958, while engaged in performing his duties as an employee of appellant. Ap-pellee was awarded compensation benefits for temporary total disability for twenty-six weeks and compensation thereafter for 50% permanent disability to the body as a whole. Reversal is sought on two grounds: (1) Appellee did not establish that he sustained a traumatic personal injury by accident within…