Bige

On an application presented to the respondent Commission for adjustment of compensation for an industrial injury sustained by petitioner herein, and which admittedly “occurred in the course and arising out of his employment,” the Commission found that the injury consisted of “aggravation into a disabling condition of a pre-existing right indirect inguinal hernia,” for which the applicant had been adequately compensated “by the furnishing of a surgical operation for the radical cure of said hernia”; and thereupon ordered that the appellant “take nothing further.”

Petitioner contends that, with the exception of that part of the finding to the effect that the injury to him occurred “in the course of and arising out of his employment,” the said finding was unsupported by any evidence relating thereto. However, as from the record herein it appears that each of the several parts of said finding was based upon the contents of certain reports, documents, publications, etc., which by the terms of section 19(c) of the Workmen’s Compensation, Insurance and Safety Act (Stats. 1917, p. 831, as variously amended) the Commission was entitled to receive and consider in evidence, the contention…