Hager v. State Compensation Commissioner

Hatcher, Judge.-

Robert Hager applied for compensation for an injury which he described as follows: 1 ‘ Growth near base of thumb causing thumb to pull down in palmer surface.” The commissioner denied the claim and Hager appealed.

The claimant was a motorman. He quit work because of an attack of acute ileo-eolitis on August 27, 1931. A growth was removed, surgically, from the palm of his hand on September 28th. He returned to work on November 7, 1931. He testified that while at work on June 27, 1931, he bruised the palm of his hand near the base of his thumb; that the bruised place remained…