Young v. Hillyer, Deutsch, Edwards, Inc.

LE BLANC, Judge.

This is a suit brought to recover compensation for disability arising out of a hernia claimed to have been suffered by plaintiff while in the employ of the defendant.

The demand was rejected for reasons given in a written opinion filed by the district judge, and the plaintiff has appealed.

The record discloses that compensation had been paid for several weeks by the defendant, but in its answer it is alleged that such payments had been made through error of fact, and that it had learned thereafter that the hernia plaintiff now claims to be compensa-ble was an old hernia and had…