Stoisits v. Lehigh & New England Railroad

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

In the latter part of April, 1935, Stefan Stoisits, claimant-appellant herein, was operated upon by Dr. Roland W. Bachman, at a hospital in Allentown, for the correction of a bilateral hernia. Replying to an inquiry relative to the purpose of the operation, the doctor testified: “A direct incomplete inguinal hernia on the left side. It was a peculiar thing about this hernia, he had a distinct split in the fascia and this did not come down through the external ring but the entire floor of the inguinal canal was split and he had an inguinal hernia protruding there about…