Hart
Hart v. Industrial Accident Commission
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Plummer, J.
This matter is based upon the petition of J. E. Hart to review the proceedings of the Industrial Accident Commission of the state of California, denying compensation in the ease of J. E. Hart v. E. G. Engman and the Aetna Life Insurance Company.
The return of the Commission sets forth by questions and answers the testimony of petitioner taken upon the hearing, which we summarize as follows:
Included in the return, as a part of the testimony taken before the Commission, is a letter written by Dr. Bartlett, an examining physician in this case, under date of October 1, 1924, as follows:
Upon the foregoing testimony, the Commission made the following findings of fact: “That J. E. Hart, on the 26th day of September, 1924, at Santa Rosa, California, while in the employ of defendant, E. G. Engman, at which time the employer was insured against liability under the Workmen’s Compensation, Insurance and Safety Act of 1917 by defendant Aetna Life Insurance Company, was found to be suffering from a right inguinal hernia which condition constitutes the basis of the claim herein asserted,” and “that the evidence herein is insufficient to establish as a fact that said hernia arose out of or…