Rugg v. Driwood Corp.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Perskie, J.

This workmen’s compensation case requires that we decide whether the petitioner suffered a compensable hernia and whether he was properly awarded payment for permanent disability and medical expenses.

Meyer Rugg, the petitioner, a man of 58 years of age, was employed by respondent as a cabinet maker for about six or seven years. On Saturday, October 21st, 1939, during the course of his employment and while lifting a panel which contained four clamps, each of which weighed fifteen or twenty pounds, he was stricken with pain in the region of…