35 Ga. App. 571 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1926
This was a proceeding under the Georgia workmen’s compensation law (Ga. L. 1920, p. 167; 9 Park’s Code Supp. 19,22, § 3154(a) et seq.). An award by the Industrial Commission in favor of W. M. Wallace, the employee, and against the Atlanta Table Company, the employer, and the London Guarantee & Accident Corporation, the insurer, was, on appeal to the superior court, affirmed, and the defendants excepted.
W. M. Wallace testified, that while trying to turn a heavy flywheel, on December 28, 1924, he “felt something break,” and shortly after had a pain like a badly sprained ankle, and could hardly stand up; that his injury grew worse and worse until January 12, 1925, when he “dropped to the ground” and was carried home; that a doctor called in by him said that he had broken or strained some ligaments in his hip; that he had been a very strong man, had lost practically no time from his work during the twenty-five years he had been with the Atlanta Table Company, and had not within his recollection had any doctor attend him for sickness; that his trouble was that he could not get up and down, that his hips hurt, and that it was painful to stoop over or get-up, and he had not been back to work since January 12, 1925, and could hardly “hop
The foregoing is not the testimony of all the witnesses, nor all the testimony of the witnesses mentioned, but is sufficient for the purposes of this decision. The Industrial Commission found that “This employee received an accidental injury arising out of and in course of employment, and has a disability resulting therefrom.” There is no question that the injury arose in the course of employment. The evidence supports the findings of fact of the commission, and the controlling question in the case is whether or not the evidence in the record supports the “order or decree complained of.” In this regard counsel for plaintiffs in error say that the employee’s rheumatic condition at the time he was injured, and not his injury, was the cause of his disability, and that his disease did not result “naturally and unavoidably” from his injury. There was evidence in this case sustaining the theory that the lifting of the fly-wheel was the original and only cause of the employee’s disability ; and it is not necessary to determine whether or not, within the meaning of the act, his rheumatism resulted “naturally and
Judgment affirmed.