Gilmore v. . Board of Education

Proceeding under North Carolina Workmen's Compensation Act to determine liability of defendants to claimants.

Upon the hearing before single Commissioner of the North Carolina Industrial Commission, evidence was offered tending to show that on 17 July, 1939, Dean Gilmore, age 65 years, intestate of claimants, while washing windows in the new gymnasium of Hoke County High School, suffered injury to his right leg, breaks in two places, when the ladder on which he was standing slipped from under him; that Dr. G. W. Brown administered first aid and sent him to Highsmith Hospital, where Dr. J. F.…