Rhodes v. Keasby-Mattison Co.

REGAN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Philip Rhodes, a common laborer, instituted this suit on April 25, 1957-*748against the defendants, his former employer Keasby-Mattison Company and its compensation insurer, American Mutual Liability Insurance Company, endeavoring to recover the sum of $35 per week for 400 weeks, for total and permanent disability resulting from an inguinal hernia incurred on or about August 9, 1956, while lifting and pushing a stack of roofing shingles.

Defendants pleaded the exceptions of no 'right or cause of action, vagueness, and prematurity, asserting that no notice of the accident…