Lay v. Idaho State School & Colony

Appellant, December 15, 1931, during the course of his employment with respondent Idaho State School and Colony suffered a concededly compensable accident, rupturing the entire length of a former appendectomy incision in his right, lower abdominal wall, thereby suffering a large ventral hernia. He received hospitalization and compensation therefor, the latter ending July 30, 1934.

Appellant contends that since that time, though then discharged as surgically healed, he has been, as an aftermath of the accident, totally and permanently disabled physically and mentally by psychosis and neurosis,…