This litigation presents a fundamental question. To safeguard his workmen's compensation benefits, must an employee who has sustained a surgically treatable industrial injury and whose employer has denied liability for the injury, submit to surgery offered by a county welfare department if he does not have the financial means to pay for the treatment?
The pertinent facts are undisputed.
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