Tucker v. State Industrial Accident Commission

In this ease the plaintiff, Lyall Tucker, seeks to recover benefits allegedly due him under the Workmen’s Compensation Law, hereinafter referred to as the act. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff and from the judgment based thereon, the defendant, State Industrial Accident Commission, appeals.

Plaintiff alleges in his complaint that he was employed by the Cedar Creek Logging Company in its logging operations in Linn county and that both he and his employer were subject to the act. That for sometime prior to July 16, 1955, he had been afflicted with a hernia but had suffered no…