Martin v. White Pine Lumber Co.

OPINION OF THE COURT

WATSON, J.

This appeal is from a judgment disallowing appellant’s claim under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Laws 1917, c. 83, as amended) for the death of her husband following an operation for a strangulated hernia.

Compensation was denied on the ground of a failure to meet the special requirements of proof in hernia cases, as prescribed in section 17 of the act, which provision reads as follows:

“A workman, in order to be entitled to • compensation for a hernia, must clearly prove: (1) That the hernia is of recent origin, (2) that its appearance was accompanied by pain,…