Luczek's Case

This is an appeal from a final decree awarding compensation and other payments under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 152, the workmen’s compensation act, to the widow for the death on November 24, 1953, of the employee who had sustained a hernia in lifting a valve in January, 1953, in the course of his employment.

The employee was being paid compensation up to the time of his death because of a hernia he received in the course of his employment. He was sixty-four years of age. An operation to repair the hernia was performed on October 27, 1953. During the course of the operation it was disclosed that the…