Aniel v. State Compensation Commissioner

Lively, Judge:

Claimant, Frank Aniel, a miner employed by Alpha-Poea-hontas Coal Company, alleges an injury resulting in bernia. Compensation was denied on tbe ground tbat the bernia is an old one and not of recent origin.

According to claimant, on July 6, 1931, immediately after lifting a lump of coal, be experienced a pain in tbe right groin and a rupture appeared, necessitating cessation of employment as a miner which be has not since been able to resume. Other employees witnessed tbe hernia at tbe time of tbe alleged injury. Claimant admits a prior operation for hernia in France about 1905,…