Case ID: ga-app_97/html/0026-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Felton, Chief Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

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    MANUFACTURERS CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY et al. v. PEACOCK.
   Felton, Chief Judge.

2. The compensation board’s finding which based a denial of compensation on the fact that the claimant’s claim was not based oni the aggravation of a pre-existing hernia was erroneous because the request for a hearing was broad enough to include aggravation. The request for a hearing was- for the reasons of “disability, liability and medical expense.” Nor did the fact that the claimant testified that the hernia did not pre-exist the accident bar a recovery in the absence of conclusive evidence that the claimant was wilfully testifying falsely, assuming but not deciding that such conduct would be a bar. The claimant’s physician testified that the hernia was preexisting but that it was giving no trouble.

The judge of the superior court did not err in reversing the award denying compensation with direction that the case be recommitted to the board to- hear evidence as to whether the claimant has suffered an injury in the course of his employment which aggravated a pre-existing hernia which incapacitated the claimant for work and hear evidence as to the period of time during which the claimant was totally disabled and to make an award accordingly. ■

Decided January 28, 1958.

Harry E. Monroe, for plaintiffs in error.

William W. Daniel, Ward, Brooks, Parker & Daniel, contra.

Judgment affirmed.

Quillian and Nichols, JJ., concur.