Gray's Hatchery & Poultry Farms, Inc. v. Stevens

Layton, J.:

On October 18th, 1948, Raymond Stevens was unloading crates of eggs, weighing about fifty pounds each. He was in good health and had been doing the kind of work described for some months. On the day in question he was, as usual, unloading egg crates from a truck which required sliding the crate back onto the tail of the truck, then lifting and turning to place the crate on the ground. While lifting such a crate something in his back snapped, accompanied by severe pain and he dropped the crate and fell upon it. He asked for a doctor. Thereafter, for some months he underwent medical…