The sole question on this appeal is whether or not claimant sustained an accident. The employer was engaged in the plastering and lathing business and claimant was a metal lather. The Workmen's Compensation Board found that on December 19, 1947, while claimant was engaged in the regular course of his employment, he lifted a heavy plank weighing about eighty pounds over his head to build a scaffold and that due to unusual extra exertion, strain and effort he sustained accidental...
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