Mullins v. Kentucky-West Virginia Gas Co.

CAMMACK, Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment wherein the Pike Circuit Court affirmed an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Board dismissing Curtis Mullins’ claim for compensation for disability resulting from a hernia. Reversal is urged upon the ground that there was no evidence showing that the 1954 hernia, for which he made claim, was the outgrowth of a previous injury.

Mullins was employed by the Kentucky-West Virginia Gas Company. On March 18, 1954, while rolling a large stone, he said he felt a sharp pain in his left side. Five minutes later, upon noticing a lump on the lower left side…