Claim of Gillar v. Jarcho Bros.

Appeal by employer and insurance carrier from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board granting disability benefits to injured employee. Claimant, a plumber, then sixty-four years of age, was engaged in *969installing plumbing in a housing development, and had been so employed by the employer for about seven months. In the afternoon of July 8, 1948, he was sent to the top or sixth floor of one of the buildings to do some work. It was a hot day, and claimant had to walk up the six stories because the elevator was not operating at the time, carrying his tools, some fixtures and a…