Bird v. Brown

Opinion by

Rhodes, J.,

The court below reversed the award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board in favor of claimant, and entered judgment for defendant. Claimant has appealed.

This is a hernia case, and the alleged accident occurred on September 9, 1938. At that time there were no statutory requirements in the compensation act then in force relating specifically to the essential proofs in hernia cases. Eckman v. U. S. Loch & Hardware Co. et al., 146 Pa, Superior Ct. 513, 23 A. 2d 232. The burden, however, was on claimant to establish that he sustained an injury by an accident in the course of his…