Cripps v. Grant Timber & Mfg. Co.

MILLS, Judge.

Under the' provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Act No. 20 of 1914, as amended), plaintiff is claiming 400 weeks’ compensation at the rate of $4.68 per week because of disability resulting from a left inguinal hernia alleged to have been accidentally received in the course of his employment while feeding slabs to a machine in defendant’s lathe mill. In his testimony he thus describes the occurrence: “I was feeding the bolting machine, putting the slab in the machine and the far edge of the bed was a quarter of an inch lower than the bed under the feed-chain, and in…