Hagan v. Mayflower Transit Co.

REED, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which the claimant-employee, Willie Lee Hagan, sought compensation for temporary total disability because of an alleged hernia which he suffered. The Workmen’s Compensation Board determined that the employee’s evidence did not establish to the board’s satisfaction either that there was an injury resulting in hernia or that the hernia appeared suddenly and immediately following the injury, or that the hernia did not exist in any degree, including the primary or incomplete stage, prior to the injury for which compensation was sought. Hagan…