Claim of Vaitulus v. General Electric Co.

Award of compensation to employee injured while wheeling a truck. The evidence shows that after long hospitalization the condition from which claimant suffered was a diaphragmatic hernia through the esophageal opening. The medical evidence sustains the finding that this condition was the direct result of the accident suffered by the claimant. Award unanimously affirmed, with costs to the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Present — Hill, P. J., Heffernan, Brewster, Foster and Deyo, JJ.