Lovely's Case

The employee, who worked for a bakery as a cook and dishwasher, was also required to bring supplies up from the basement to the bakery. On October 5, 1954, while carrying a one hundred pound bag of sugar up the basement stairs, he felt pain in his right side. That evening, the pains continued and his groin started to swell. The employee reported the facts to his employer the next day and “asked him about going to a doctor and showed him the swelling on several occasions.” He continued to work with difficulty for two weeks. On November 2, 1954, he “was operated on for a hernia.” He returned to…