Herbert v. Newark Hardware & Supply Co.

By this writ an employer seeks to review a judgment in a workmen’s compensation case for $490 entered in favor of the workman by the commissioner, and affirmed in the Essex Common Pleas.

The workman was ruptured while lifting a heavy stove when his fellow-worker, who was assisting him in placing the stove on a truck, let go his end, thereby throwing the entire weight of the stove upon the petitioner.

The petitioner testified that some two and one-half years previously, while working for the same employer, he was ruptured, as he' says, “not so bad” on the same side; he did not submit to any…