Case ID: ri-dec_4/html/0041-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "TANNER, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Benedetto Tartaglia vs. Lorenzo Deacutis
    W. C. A. No. 777
    November 5, 1927.
    For petitioner: A. L. Conaty.
    For respondent: F. J. McOsker.
   TANNER, P. J.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation ease in which the defence was that there was no accident since the workman sprained his shoulder by’ lifting a wheelbarrow with a heavy load.

We think under the authorities that this was an accident.

1st Hunnold, W. C. A. eases, p. 281;

Walsh vs. River Spinning Co., 41 R. I. 490.