Hughes v. Fayette Realty & Development Co.

This is an appeal from an award of the Industrial Board, denying appellant compensation.

- The evidence shows that appellant was employed by appellee on the 16th day of January, 1932, that his work consisted of laying track in a coal mine, that it required appellant to lift heavy iron rails, that he had been engaged at that kind of work for several years, that on said date, while he was lifting an iron rail it slipped from his hands, and hit him in the right groin, that he had theretofore suffered from a rupture in the same region for five years previously, that following the blow of the rail…