Camilli v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

Defendant employer has appealed from a judgment in favor of claimant entered in the court below, sustaining the award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. The questions raised on this appeal go not to the facts, for there is little dispute, but to the inferences to be drawn from them. From the record we find sufficient competent evidence to sustain the findings of the Board that on September 7,1937, claimant sustained a hernia in the course of his employment and that the injury was the result of an accident.

Plaintiff’s status was that of a machinist’s helper but because of…