Smith v. Pittsburgh Coal Co.

Citations

• 71 Pa. Super. 325
• 1919 Pa. Super. LEXIS 103

Syllabus

<p>Workmen’s compensation — Hernia—Findings of referee.</p> <p>1. In an action under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, for compensation for disability resulting .from a hernia, alleged to have been sustained by claimant in lifting the end of a coal car, the findings of fact by the referee, sustained by the Workmen’s Compensation Board and the Court of Common Pleas, based on sufficient evidence, are final.</p> <p>2. Where the referee found that the plaintiff suffered an umbilical rupture while in the course of his employment, assisting his father to put a coal car on the track, and that the lifting of the car and the strain of the abdominal pressure therefrom caused the hernia, the injury must be considered compensable and the award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board will be sustained;</p>