Schwendig v. Anderson & Hedwall Co.

Peterson, Justice.

Certiorari to review an order of the industrial commission denying relator workmen’s compensation.

Relator claims to have sustained a hernia by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment, which respondents deny. The commission found that relator has a hernia, but denied him an award upon the grounds stated in a memorandum attached to its order that he failed to sustain the burden of proof as to causal connection between the injury and the employment.

Relator’s testimony is that on Tuesday, February 1, 1938, while performing his duties as an electrotyper in the…