California Notion & Toy Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission

This matter comes to us upon a writ of review. It is contended by petitioner that an award of the Industrial Accident Commission, allowing compensation to E'dward G. Fennig for a period from September 24, 1921, to February 28, 1922, the date of the award, is unwarranted and should be annulled. The commission found that since the injury the applicant has been suffering from a diseased condition of the blood vessels and any disability existing after the date of the award is due to said diseased condition and not to said injury.

Edward G. Fennig, at the time of the accident involved here, was a man of the age of about sixty-three years. He had been employed for twenty-five years as a salesman and stock clerk by the California Notion and Toy Company. He had worked continually and steadily in his employment and had not had occasion to require the' services of a physician except occasionally for a cold. On September 16, 1921, he was attempting to take down some stock from the shelves. He had a short movable ladder which he had carried to the shelves. He stated at the hearing that his recollection of the matters immediately preceding the accident and of the accident itself was not…