Kasarewski v. Hupp Motor Car Corp.

From an award of compensation to plaintiff, defendants bring tbis appeal. Plaintiff was an employee of defendant Hupp Motor Car Corporation approximately 16 months prior to tbe event in consequence of which he seeks compensation. There is competent testimony in support of the department’s finding that plaintiff had a right femoral hernia when he began working for the Hupp Motor Car Corporation. In his work he lifted material weighing from 60- to 77 pounds. On October 31,1944, after he lifted a piece of material from the floor in the usual course of his work, he felt a pain in the region of…