Bontempt v. Suburban Construction Co.

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

The claimant seeks compensation for a hernia alleged to have resulted from an accident in the course of his employment. The uneontradicted evidence is that he was injured on August 20, 1930, while at work in a ditch about eight feet deep, and that, while bending over, stones and dirt fell in on him and the weight thereof “pushed me against a pipe, striking my abdomen and part of my chest against a big pipe that was in front of me at that time, and even the pipes were broken.” He immediately experienced severe pains in his abdominal region and was taken to the Abington…