Spirakoff v. Pluto Coal Mining Co.

THE Pluto Coal Mining Company and the Employers Mutual Insurance Company, its compensation insurance carrier, instituted an action in the district court to set aside an award of the Industrial Commission allowing compensation to claimant, an employee of the Pluto company. Plaintiff prevailed, and to reverse the judgment entered accordingly, the commission and claimant bring the case here for review by writ of error.

Claimant at the time he was employed by the coal company was examined by the company's physician, who discovered that he was afflicted with a small indirect hernia on the left…