Capers v. Arkansas Natural Gas Corp.

TALIAFERRO, Judge.

Plaintiff sues to recover workmen’s compensation on the basis of permanent total disability. His demand was rejected below and he appealed.

He alleges that on March 13, 1938, while assisting several other workmen in moving a heavy cabinet safe of his employer, the Arkansas Natural Gas Company, from one room to another in the Slattery Building, he sustained a double inguinal hernia as a result of the heavy lifting and straining necessary to move the safe. He im-pleaded his employer and the carrier of its workmen’s compensation insurance.

Defendants deny that plaintiff was…