Otis v. Board of Com'rs

McBRTDE, Judge.

Matthew Otis, claiming to be totally and permanently disabled, seeks to recover of defendant workmen’s compensation for 400 weeks at the maximum rate, less such amounts as have already been paid to him. The disability claimed by the workman is attributed by him to a left inguinal hernia, sustained on July 24, 1951 while working as a laborer for defendant at the local public grain elevator.

The defendant admitted that the plaintiff had sustained a compensable injury, hut alleged that the injury consisted not of a left inguinal hernia, but of a recurrence of a right inguinal…