Walter
Walter v. Indus. Accident Comm'n
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Richards, J.
The applicant for a writ of review herein is seeking an annulment of the award of the Industrial Accident Commission denying to her a death benefit by reason of the death of her husband, occurring on February 19, 1929, and which, according to the contention of the petitioner for such award, was proximately caused or accelerated by an injury which her deceased husband sustained on July 10, 1928, while in the employ of the Eibe & Huffman Warehouse Company, which employer was at the time insured against liability with the State Compensation Insurance Fund. The injury which the decedent on said latter date sustained was occasioned by the fact that, while working in the warehouse of his employer, he was caught in the fall of a pile of sacks and thereby sustained a fracture of the second lumbar vertebra. He was taken to a hospital and treated for his injuries for some time, under the direct care and supervision of Doctors Fibush and Prothero, who each testified fully before the Commission concerning his condition when he arrived at the hospital and his treatment thereafter by them of the aforesaid injury to his spine. During the considerable period of his confinement in bed in the…