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evidence to show that when he was in school in the fourth or fifth grade his teacher had said he didn't know much, was very poor and always got low marks. He was a constitutional mental inferior.

I had held consistently that he was injured in the course of his employment; he had had a serious injury; the present condition was the result of the injury. I had medical evidence for it. Dr. Lewy had testified. I got another psychiatrist down on that case. I think it was Dr. Irving Pardee - then quite young, but now quite an important fellow. He testified in favor of the man. “You cannot divorce yourself from the facts in this case. If this was a private patient of mine I should certainly think it was the blow on the head that caused his condition. He's always been able to work and earn his living before that blow. Now he's subject to all these strange behaviours and ideas. Certainly it's connected with the injury.”

The insurance company was still opposing it, fighting it and taking appeals. The man representing the insurance company was Mr. Geddings. He was one of the nicest men that ever came before us representing the insurance companies. He was only doing what his superiors told him to do. He opposed our decision and said he would take an appeal or ask for rehearing. This man therefore





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