Dixie-Cole Transfer Trucking Co. v. Fudge

Banke, Judge.

This is an appeal by the employer-self insurer in a workmen’s compensation case. Claimant’s deceased husband was a truck driver employed by appellant. While driving his regular route between Atlanta and New Orleans, the employee was admitted to an Alabama hospital with what was diagnosed as a myocardial infarction. He died in that hospital the same day, and the death certificate showed the cause of death to be a myocardial infarction.

The doctor who treated the employee testified in his deposition that, in his opinion, based on his examination of the employee, on the tests…