Szymanski v. Culmerville Coal Co.

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

Frank Szymanski, claimant’s husband, was employed by defendant as a coal miner, for years. In October 1936 be had been operated upon for a perforating duodenal ulcer. Because of accompanying infection and extensive peritonitis the incision did not completely heal until the following April leaving a “weak area” at the site of the incision. In May 1937 he returned to work with defendant company as a coal loader. On June 24, 1937, overexertion in moving an excessively heavy piece of bony caused a break in the wall of the abdomen through the long incision of the former…