Black Mountain Corporation v. Dean

Opinion ok the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming.

While at work as a coal loader in the mine of the Black Mountain Corporation on September 9, 1935, Will Dean claims to have sustained an accidental injury which resulted in hernia. He continued working in the mine until October 17, 1935, when the company’s physicians informed him that an operation was necessary. He was operated upon December 9, 1935, by one of the company physicians, and was discharged from the hospital December 25, 1935. The company physicians were of the opinion at that time that the operation was successful, and that he had been…