Gentry v. Gulf Public Service Co.

Plaintiff appealed from judgment rejecting his demand for workmen's compensation on the theory that while ending-up a three hundred pound block of ice in his employer's plant, about the hour of 6:30 P.M., December 4, 1940, he sustained a right inguinal hernia, which produced permanent total disability. Laboring under the belief that plaintiff was disabled to work because of the above stated reason, defendant's insurer paid him compensation until March 26, 1941. Payments thereafter being discontinued, this suit was instituted against the employer only. Trial was concluded February 26, 1942.

Defe…