Star Fruit Co. v. Canady

CHAPMAN, J.:

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case. The record discloses that Henry Canady, a colored man, on January 25,1946, and for some time prior thereto, was employed by the Star Fruit Company as an orange picker. It is shown that while working for his employer he had climbed near the top of his ladder and had a bag or sack filled with oranges thrown about his shoulder when a rung of the ladder broke or gave way and he fell from the top of the ladder to the ground and in the fall sustained injuries in the lower portion of his back. The Deputy Commissioner, from all the evidence adduced,…