Starkey v. Bechtel-Mccone Corporation

This is a suit for compensation for total, permanent disability arising out of an alleged accident which the plaintiff claims caused him to sustain a right inguinal hernia.

Plaintiff was employed by the defendant and his work consisted of hard manual labor. He claims that on March 2, 1945, while he was engaged in the course and within the scope of his work, moving a large pipe with five or seven other employees, he felt a "scratch" across his side and that is the accident which he claims resulted in his alleged disability. He avers in his petition that he was earning wages of an amount…