Carr v. Murch Bros. Const. Co.
Decision Date | 03 December 1929 |
Citation | 21 S.W.2d 897,223 Mo.App. 788 |
Parties | ABNER J. CARR (CLAIMANT), RESPONDENT, v. MURCH BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, A CORPORATION (EMPLOYER), AND MARYLAND CASUALTY COMPANY, A CORPORATION (INSURER), APPELLANTS. [*] |
Court | Missouri Court of Appeals |
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis.--Hon. George E. Mix, Judge.
AFFIRMED.
Judgment affirmed.
Burney P. Bodard and Raymond L. Swann for appellants.
(1) Before an employee can recover compensation for hernia, he must definitely prove the four essential requisites set out in the Compensation Act, the first of these being that there was an accident resulting in hernia, 1 Honnold on Workmen's Compensation (1 Ed.), sec. 129, page 503; Missouri Workmen's Compensation Act, section 17 subdivision B (Laws of Missouri 1927, page 501); Section 7 subdivision B (Laws of Missouri 1927, page 495); Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language (1928 Ed.); Alpert v. Powers et al., 119 N.E. 229, 223 N.Y. 97; Cavalier v. Chevrolet Motor Company of New York, Inc., et al., 178 N.Y.S. 489; Noble v. Mathieson Alkali Company, Inc., et al., 186 N.Y.S. 752; Sure Pure Ice Company v. Industrial Commission et al. (Ill.), 150 N.E. 909; Kutschmar v Briggs Mfg. Co. (Mich. case), 163 N.W. 933; Stombaugh v. Peerless Wire Fence Company, 164 N.W. 537; Tackles v. Bryant & Detwiler Company, 167 N.W. 36, 200 Mich. 350; Gentelong v. American Hide & Leather Company et al. , 184 N.Y.S. 808; Sanders v. Faller et al., 205 N.Y.S. 285. (2) Under section 17 (b) of the Missouri Workmen's Compensation Act, before an employee can recover compensation for hernia, he must definitely prove that the hernia did not exist in any degree prior to the alleged accident resulting in the injury for which compensation is claimed. Missouri Workmen's Compensation Act, section 17, subdivision B (Laws of Missouri 1927, page 501); McPhee & McGinity Company v. Industrial Commission of Colorado et al. (Colo.), 185 P. 268; Indemnity Insurance Company of North America v. Jones et al. (Texas), 299 S.W. 674; Travelers Insurance Company v. Washington (Texas), 5 S.W. (2d Series) 783; O'Brien v. Wise & Upson Company, Inc., et al. (Conn., 1928), 143 A. 155.
Bartley & Mayfield for respondent.
(1) A pre-existing injury or condition in the body, including hernia, if injured or aggravated by an accident, is compensable. Brown v. Kemp, 14 N. C. C. A. 535 (note); Puritan Bed Spring Co. v. Wolfe, 17 N. C. C. A. 872 (note), 120 N.E. 417; West Side Coal & Mining Co. v. Industrial Comm., 25 N. C. C. A. 350, 361 (note), 321 Ill. 61; O'Gara Coal Co. v. Industrial Comm., 320 Ill. 191; Rissman & Son v. Industrial Comm., 26 N. C. C. A. 1, 15 (note); Scales v. West Norfolk F. M. C. C. O., 6 N. C. C. A., 390; Forrest v. Roper Furniture Co., 187 Ill.App. 504; Klika v. Ind. School Dist. No. 79, 202 N.W. 30 (Minn.); Walker v. Minn. Steel Co., 209 N.W. 635 (Minn.). (2) There was an accident within the meaning of subsection (b) of section 7, Laws of 1927, page 495. This definition could have been copied from Compiled Laws of Nebraska, 1922, section 3075, subsection (b). It is identically the same. Minnesota has the same phraseology, Mason's Minn. Stat. 1927, section 4326, subsec. H. Manning v. Pomerene, 162 N.W. 492 (Neb., 1917); Johansen v. Union Stock Yards Co. of Omaha, 156 N.W. 511 (Neb., 1916), 99 Neb. 328; Van Vleet v. Public Service Co. of N.Y., 195 N.W. 467 (Neb., 1923); LaVeck v. Parke, Davis & Co., 157 N.W. 72; State ex rel. Rainey Lake Co. v. Dist. Ct. of St. Louis Co., 164 N.W. 585 (Minn.); Kallgren v. C. W. Lindquist Co., 216 N.W. 241 (Minn., 1927); Brown's Case, 123 A. 421 (Maine, 1924); Babich v. Oliver Iron Min. Co., 195 N.W. 784 (Minn.). (3) There being competent evidence to support it, the award of the commission is binding. Laws of 1927, 512, section 44; State ex rel. Brewen-Clarke Syrup Co. v. Missouri Workmen's Compensation Comm., 8 S.W.2d 897.
This appeal is from the judgment of the circuit court affirming the award of the compensation commission under the Missouri Workmen's Compensation Act. The injury for which claim is made is the strangulation of a pre-existing hernia.
Upon the hearing before the commission, the claimant testified:
The attending physicians in their reports described the nature and extent of claimant's injury as "a left-side strangulated indirect inguinal hernia."
The Commission awarded compensation as follows: For medical aid $ 250, for 9-6/7 weeks total temporary disability $ 197.41, aggregating $ 447.41. The Commission in connection with the award made findings of facts and rulings of law as follows:
Appellants insist here that the evidence as disclosed by the record is insufficient to warrant the award made by the Commission or to warrant the affirmance of said award by the circuit court in...
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