Peloquin v. ITT General Controls, Inc.

This is an employee’s appeal from a final decree of the workmen’s compensation commission.

On July 1, 1964, petitioner sustained an injury in the course of lifting a heavy steel bin, which lifting was within the duties for which he had been engaged by respondent employer. The petitioner was first examined by Dr. E. Wade Bishop on the evening of July 1 — the day of the accident — and again on July 2 and 6.

Doctor Bishop diagnosed the injury as a left inguinal hernia and recommended surgery, but petitioner was not receptive; so on July 6, 1964, Dr. Bishop had him fitted to a truss. It was the…