Sowder v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner

CaplaN, .Judge:

This is an appeal by the employer, The New River Company, a corporation, from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board dated January 28, 1972, which, reversing the order of the commissioner, held the claimant’s claim to be compensable.

Albert C. Sowder, the claimant, alleges that he was injured while in the employ of The New River Company. According to his petition the claimant on April 26, 1968, while driving a buggy on which he was hauling coal from a conveyor, struck a rut or a low place in the roadway causing the steering mechanism on the buggy to jerk his arm and…