Mooney-Mueller-Ward Co. v. Doyle
Mooney-Mueller-Ward Co. v. Doyle
Opinion of the Court
On September 1, 1922, while appellee was in the employment of appellant as a medicine packer in appellant’s wholesale drug house, the tendo Achillis of appellee’s right foot was injured by coming in contact with a moving truck. On September 18, 1922, the Industrial Board approved a compensation agreement of the parties. About the middle of October, 1922, appellee, under his old contract of employment with appellant, resumed work, receiving therefor his wages, but, from that time, he neither asked nor received" anything as compensation for his injuries, until May 12, 1923, at which time he notified appellant that there had been a recurrence of his disability, and that he would again claim compensation. Thereupon, appellant, without requiring an examination of appellee, and without an order of the Industrial Board, began the payment of compensation at the rate stipulated by the compensation agreement of September 18, and such pay
At the hearing of appellant’s application for review, the testimony of appellee as a witness in his own behalf was, in substance, that on May 12, 1923, while he was waiting to board a street car, “a pain struck” him in his right leg and foot, which made it impossible for him to get on the car without help, that he had not had a pain of that character before, and that the pain from which he was suffering at the time of the hearing was confined to the bottom of his right heel. Dr. Mumford, the physician who treated appellee at the time of his injury on September 1, 1922, testified that “the injury was confined to the tendo Achillis,” the tendon at the back of, and immediately above, the heel, and could not have had “anything to do with causing the trouble” appellee “now has.” Two other physicians who examined appellee’s foot, at or about the time of the hearing in August, 1923, testified positively that appellee was at that time suffering from a condition of his right foot known as a “calcaneum spur”, a projection of the bottom surface of the bone at the bearing point of the heel, that there was nothing the matter with appellee’s right foot or heel other than
Award reversed, with instructions to the Industrial Board to find for appellant, and to make and enter an order terminating compensation.
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