Atlantic Coast Shipping Co. v. Stasiak

Michael Stasiak, the appellee, a stevedore forty-eight years old, on January 4th, 1929, while working on a pier of the Western Maryland Kailway Company, in the employ of the Atlantic Coast Shipping Company, one of the appellants, developed a hernia, described in the physician’s report to the State Industrial Accident Commission as a “large inguinal hernia.” He testified: “We were loading tin plate on trucks, and as I was throwing it to my partner, there were two of us, and then I felt a pain * * * then I pressed at the place where I felt the pain and the pain disappeared, and then I continued…