Eckman v. U. S. Lock & Hardware Co.

Opinion by

Rhodes, J.,

On this appeal in this workmen’s compensation case, in which claimant is the widow of a deceased employee who died following an operation for hernia, the question involved is whether the finding of the referee and the Workmen’s Compensation Board that deceased was not injured by “an accident” in the course of his employment must be sustained. Claimant’s petition averred that her husband died on September 29, 1938, as the result of an accidental injury received in the course of his employment with defendant employer. An answer was filed in which it was denied that deceased…