Pillsbury

This is an original application to this court, under section 84 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, to review the award of the industrial accident commission directing the petitioner to pay to one Ernest Dreyer the sum of $78.97, and the further sum of $9.37 each week beginning September 17, 1914, until the termination of the disability.

Dreyer was injured while in the employment of the petitioner and in the course of said employment. The only point made against the award is the claim that the accident was not the proximate cause of the disability for which the award was made.

Dreyer was engaged in shaving and painting poles for the petitioner. On July 1, 1914, while at work, he accidentally caught his left hand between one of the poles and another piece of timber thereby bruising the flesh and knocking a small piece of skin off the back of the hand. For the next two days, July 2d and July 3d, he continued his work, but used the other hand only. On the third day the injured hand began to pain him severely. The 4th came on Saturday and no work was carried on. On Monday he was unable to work because of the condition of the hand and the severe pain therein. Inflammation and…