Miller Milling Co. v. Amyett

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This is á claim under the workmen’s compensation law for medical expenses and temporary disability resulting from a hernia assertedly suffered by the appellee in the course of his employment. The Commission, with one member dissenting, held the injury to be compensable. The circuit court affirmed that decision.

The pivotal question is whether there is any substantial evidence to establish the fifth of the five specific facts that our statute requires in hernia cases. This is the pertinent language of the statute:

“In all cases of claims for hernia it shall he shown to…