Hersman v. State

Claimant, Elmer E. Hersman, in his complaint filed in this court on August 4, 1942, alleges that on June 12, 1942, he was employed by the Department of Public Works and Buildings, Division of Highways, of the State of Illinois, and that while lifting concrete tile forming a culvert across Milton Boad at Alton, Illinois, he suffered an injury which arose out of and in the course of his employment. Eespondent has moved to dismiss the claim on the ground that claimant’s injury is a hernia; that respondent has offered claimant such medical and surgical care, by claimant’s own physician, as is…