State Highway Commission v. Westerfield

Opinion op the Court by

Creal, Commissioner

Reversing.

On June 2, 1932, Jesse C. Westerfield filed a claim for an adjustment of compensation against the Kentucky state highway commission, hereinafter called the highway commission, claiming that, while employed by the highway commission and in the regular course of' his employment in shoveling* crushed stone from a railroad car, he received a^ strain or injury which resulted in a hernia. It was stipulated and agreed by counsel for the respective parties that at the time of the alleged injury for which compensation was sought, both the employer…