Lord Baltimore Hotel Co. v. Doyle

Bernard C. Doyle had been employed by the Lord Baltimore Hotel Company as a steam engineer for about five years prior to his death on June 21, 1947, at the age of 58. In 1943 he had undergone an operation for a gastric ulcer which left him with a post-operative, ventral hernia at the site of the four-inch abdominal incision. For a year or two following the operation there was a gradual increase in its size, after which it remained quiescent, so that he did not submit to a further operation. He was in good health and worked regularly. On June 12, 1947, while working on a ladder fixing a leak…