Nagy v. Continental Die Casting Corp.

Plaintiff was a common laborer in the employ of the Continental Die Casting Corporation and claims that, on the 28th day of February, 1936, while engaged, with a fellow worker, in emptying an iron barrel of zinc scrap metal, he suffered a ‘ ‘ right indirect inguinal hernia. ’ ’ A previous barrel of scrap had been emptied upon the floor and it was while emptying the second barrel upon the pile from the first that he claims he felt a sharp pain and the hernia followed. He kept at work thereafter until discharged in May, 1936, and at times was engaged in lifting boxes weighing about 60 pounds.…