New Amsterdam Casualty Co. v. Keller

LATTIMORE, Justice.

Appellee sues under the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Rev. St. 1925, art. 8306 et seq.) for receiving a hernia.

While working on September 20, 1929, he felt a sharp pain in his groin. The next day he went to Dr. Leake, to whom he had been instructed to go in ease of injury. Dr. Leake, he says, told him he had received a strain but not a hernia, and he continued to work suffering pain regularly. He bought and used a suspensory and truss, but the latter pained him so he did not wear it regularly. In October, 1930, he again was examined at his own request by Dr. Leake, who told…