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Title: Southern S.S. Co. v. Norton
Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Release Date : January 06, 1939
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 55 KB

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William Jackson, the claimant-appellee, while performing services as a longshoreman for the appellant, Southern Steamship Company, sustained an injury on the S.S. "West Texas", docked at a wharf on the Delaware River, at Philadelphia. Jackson was about sixty-six years of age and had been employed regularly as a trucker, that is to say a person engaged in the work of moving freight by means of a small hand-truck. He was called from his regular work of trucking to assist in stowing freight in the hold of the vessel and while so acting sustained an injury to his back in attempting to lift a heavy piece of metal. The injury was sustained on June 2, 1937. On June 3, 1937 he reported his accident to his employer, was sent to the employers physician, who treated him until July 3, 1937. Thereafter the claimant worked about four days at his regular job of trucking, viz., July 6, 9, 10 and 12, 1937.