HENDERSON, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
Bernard C. Doyle had been employed by the Lord Baltimore Hotel Company as a steam engineer for about five years prior to his death on June 21, 1947, at the age of 58. In 1943 he had undergone an operation for a gastric ulcer which left him with a post-operative, ventral hernia at the site of the four-inch abdominal incision. For a year or two following the operation there was a gradual increase in its size, after...
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