Miller v. Empire Gas & Fuel Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

The plaintiff recovered compensation for a personal injury, and the defendant appeals.

*125The plaintiff suffered from habitual dislocation of his right shoulder. While digging a ditch for the defendant, a cave occurred, and in saving himself, the sixth dislocation was produced. The accident happened on August 30, 1918. On March 15, 1919, an operation on the shoulder was performed by Dr. W. P. Callahan, of Wichita, one of the defendant’s surgeons. The operation consisted in sewing up lacerations in the stretched and toneless ligament surrounding…