Industrial Commission v. Valdez

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The parties here, in order, are hereinafter referred to as the commission, the fund, the employer, and claimant.

Claimant is afflicted with hernia which he contends is the result of an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. The commission found that he failed to establish that fact. The district court, holding otherwise, reversed the commission. To review that judgment plaintiffs prosecute this writ. Such is the sole question before us.

“An employee in order to be entitled to compensation for hernia must clearly prove: first, that its…