Points v. D. H. Holmes Co.

REDMANN, Judge.

Defendants, an employer and its workmen’s compensation insurer, appeal an award of $10 a week for 300 weeks to plaintiff employee in connection with her claim that carrying 80-pound mail sacks in her employment caused disability hernia.

Plaintiff was employed by D. H. Holmes in February, 1967 and ultimately was discharged in December, 1968.

Medical evidence indicates that plaintiff underwent abdominal surgery in 1962. After the surgery, the doctor diagnosed either a ventral hernia, or a pendulous abdomen. However, in April 1967 (two months after the commencement of plaintiff’s…