Thomas v. Industrial Accident Commission

Petitioner filed his application with the respondent commission for adjustment of his claim for compensation. He had suffered a hernia and the employer had provided a surgical operation and hospital care. Respondent commission found that- petitioner had sustained an injury arising out of and in the course of his employment “consisting of the aggravation into a disability condition of a preexisting left inguinal hernia”. It further found that petitioner had been adequately compensated for the “exacerbation of said hernia” by the furnishing of the surgical operation and hospital care “without…