Brown v. Industrial Commission

Opinion by

Mr. Justice McWilliams.

Verl M. Brown, a 63-year-old self-employed plastering contractor, filed claim for workmen’s compensation benefits as the result of two separate, though related, incidents wherein he allegedly sustained injury to his low back. The first incident occurred while Brown was pushing a wheelbarrow, and the second occurred a day later when he was carrying shingles up a ladder,' both incidents taking place in and around a house which Brown and his crew were remodeling. After hearing, the referee denied Brown’s claim, finding that Brown had “failed to establish that the…