Williams v. National Cash Register Co.

Plaintiff, while employed by defendant as a salesman, carried a sample cash register, weighing about 150 pounds, on the front seat of his automobile, and which he commonly lifted from the seat and carried into business places to exhibit to prospective purchasers. July 6,1934, he parked his car at the curb of a street and, standing on the curb or sidewalk, reached down, lifted the cash register from the seat and carried it into a store. He claimed that the register was “pretty low down” when he picked it up, and felt a pain in his left groin and a left inguinal hernia developed.

Was the hernia…