Meade v. Wisconsin Motor Manufacturing Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. This action was brought by the plaintiff to set aside an order of the Industrial Commission of Wisconsin dismissing his application for compensation for injuries which he claims to have received in the course of his employment by the Wisconsin Motor Mamtfacturing Company.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. This action was brought by the plaintiff to set aside an order of the Industrial Commission of Wisconsin dismissing his application for compensation for injuries which he claims to have received in the course of his employment by the Wisconsin Motor Mamtfacturing Company. While helping to operate an automatic screw machine in the factory of the Wisconsin Motor Manufacturing Company the plaintiff claims that, on.November 8, 1917, he slipped and received an injury which .'resulted in hernia. The…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebeckee, J.
The trial court held that the facts presented a clear case of an industrial accident and entitled the plaintiff to compensation, upon the ground that the record disclosed no substantial, credible evidence to support the findings of the Commission to the effect that the plaintiff is not entitled to compensation. As shown in the foregoing statement, the Commission assumes from common knowledge that inguinal hernia is rarely caused by accident, but is generally the result of inherited or acquired weakness. These facts concerning the cause of hernia seem to be so generally known and undoubted…
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