Craig v. Standard Fruit & Steamship Co.

JANVIER, Judge.

Plaintiff, Mrs. Robert Craig, seeks to recover compensation for the death of her husband, alleging that the death resulted from an accidental injury sustained in the course of his emplojunent- by defendant as a “banana messenger.” The sole controversy arises over a quéstion of fact: Whether the cause of the death, which, admittedly, was a strangulated or incarcerated femoral hernia, resulted from accident.

Defendant maintains that there was no accident, but that the said hernia resulted solely and entirely from natural causes.

In the district court there was judgment for…