Simon v. Health-Tex, Inc.

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

This is an employee’s appeal from the denial and dismissal of his petition for benefits payable pursuant to the terms of the Workers’ Compensation Act. In his petition the employee alleged that he had incurred a “bilateral inguinal hernia” as a result of an injury he sustained on August 17, 1978, as he was stacking pallets one on top of the other. Hereinafter we shall refer to the employee as Simon and his employer as Health-Tex.

Nobody disputes the fact that Simon, while working at Health-Tex’s plant, received an injury to the groin on August 17, 1978, as he was…