Barone v. McCormick Transportation Company

Bramhall, J.:

Two questions are presented by these appeals: (1) Was the injury accidental although sustained in the usual course of employment? ; and, (2) did defendants waive the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act relative to medical treatment and expense after the expiration of thirty days?

On December 1, 1950, plaintiff in the regular course of his employment was engaged in unloading from a truck cotton bales, each weighing approximately 450 lbs. While pulling over one of these bales for the purpose of unloading it, plaintiff felt a sharp pain shoot down his leg from the area of…