Perkins v. Mills Engineering & Construction Co.

DORE, Judge.

The suit is for compensation for total and permanent disability on the basis of $9.36 per week for a period not exceeding 400 weeks on account of an injury plaintiff claims to have received while lifting a log in clearing a right of way as an employee of the defendant construction company on May'21, 1936. The injury for which compensation is claimed is an inguinal hernia on the left side. The insurance carrier is joined as a codefendant. Defendants deny that plaintiff received an injury while in the employ of the construction company, and deny that he is disabled.

The appeal is…