Claim of Grear v. P. J. Garvey Carting & Storage, Inc.

Appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. In the course of moving household furniture on February 27, 1957 from one residence to another in Buffalo, claimant, who for 20 years had been a truck driver and mover, experienced certain physical sensations which he described in the record. He testified that while he was carting the furniture “ my arm went to sleep on me ”; and that he continued to work “ until my arm gave out.” The work was arduous. It included lifting and helping to carry a refrigerator upstairs. These are sufficiently describable events in the course…