Daniel v. Transport Insurance Co.

JANVIER, Judge.

Plaintiff, a truck driver employed by Campbell “66” Express Company, sustained injury to his right knee on April 18, 1957, when a heavy box fell from the truck and struck his leg. He was sent by his employer to Dr. W. Rogers Brewster who referred him to Dr. H. R. Soboloff, an orthopedist specialist. Dr. Soboloff found that the plaintiff had sustained “a torn cartilage” and “a softening of the surfaces of the bone,” and a “little arthritis in the knee”. It was necessary to perform an operation which is referred to as a meni-sectomy and a part of a cartilage in the knee was…