Arnold v. White-Grandin Lumber Co.

Plaintiff alleges in his petition that on November 12, 1930, while engaged for the defendant lumber company in part of his work which consisted in assisting at firing the boilers of the saw mill at which he worked, he sustained a hernia on his left side. Without stating the exact manner in which it happened, he alleges that his injury occurred when he was attempting to put a large slab or piece of wood into one of the boilers. The petition does not inform us whether he was struck by the heavy slab, or whether the hernia developed from excessive straining or otherwise. His allegation as to the…