Continental Casualty Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission

George Glantz was employed as a metal' worker by H. E. Jaynes & Son whose compensation insurance carrier was the petitioner. About July 21, 1932, Glantz suffered an injury to his left wrist. This injury occurred in the course of, and grew out of, his employment. Glantz thought he had sprained his wrist, had it bound with tape and continued with his work. He was not incapacitated for work for a period of seven days though he might have missed a few days’ work owing to pain in this wrist. On December 15, 1934, he suffered a second injury to the same wrist. While working on the door of an automobile it fell, cutting the flesh on the wrist to the bone. He consulted a physician and .X-rays were taken which disclosed an old fracture of one of the bones of the wrist which had not united. It is admitted that this fracture occurred in the accident of July 21, 1932. It was the conclusion of examining physicians that an operation was necessary to unite the two fragments of the bone.

On February 11, 1935, Glantz filed with the Industrial Accident Commission an application for the adjustment of his claim growing out of his first injury. During the hearing on this application, and on the…