Sussick v. Glen Alden Coal Co.

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

This case is an appeal from the decision of the court affirming the board in awarding compensation for disability and expenses resulting from a hernia.

The claimant alleges that he was injured between 12:00 and 1:00 o’clock on January 21, 1931. The uncontradicted evidence is that he was driving a team of mules, which had trouble starting a loaded car of coal, and, in an effort to assist them, he put a sprag between the spokes of a wheel on the car, put his weight upon it, and used all his strength for the purpose of starting the ear. He experienced a sudden “ grabbing…