Sun Coal Co. v. Wilson

This is a suit under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. (Acts 1919, chapter 123).

The claimant, Andy Wilson, while in the employ of the Sun Coal Company, to-wit, on October 28,1920, received an injury which produced hernia.

The coal company proposed to pay all the necessary expenses of an operation and requested claimant to go to the hospital and have said operation, which he refused to do, and his failure to submit to said operation was set up as a defense to his right to recover.

The trial court was of the opinion that he did not have to submit to an operation, and rendered a judgment in favor of…