Roberts v. Hillman Coal & Coke Co.

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

As the result of the effort and strain incident to lifting a large piece of bone coal in the course of his employment in one of defendant’s mines on May 21, 1934, claimant suffered a bi-lateral and right femoral hernia, concededly compensable under the hernia amendment of April 13, 1927, P. L. 186, (77 PS §652) to the Workmen’s Compensation Act of June 2, 1915, P. L. 736. An operation for the correction of these hernias was performed by Dr. J. M. Snyder, a company doctor, to whom claimant was referred by his family physician, Dr. P. J. Pessalano. On July 2, 1934, Dr.…