Hargrove v. Ford Motor Co.

The order of the department of labor and industry affirmed the ¡award of the deputy commissioner, which granted compensation of $21 per week to plaintiff Willie 0. Hargrove for total disability from July 30,1944, to September 10, 1944, together with reimbursement for medical and hospital expenses in the sum of $253.85.

Hargrove was an employee of the defendant, Ford Motor Company. At the time of his rehiring on September 15,1938, he was found to have a bilateral hernia. On May 30, 1944, while testing motors he slipped and fell, aggravating the pre-existing non-disabling hernia'. Prior to that…