Jakes v. Union Carbide Nuclear Co.

Mrs. Jessie P. Jakes brought her action for compensation in accordance with T.C.A. sec. 50-901 et seq., the Tennessee Workmen’s Compensation statute, to recover for the death of her husband, Grienn Jackson Jakes, Sr., on March 25,1959, while he was an employee of the Union Carbide Nuclear Company at Oak Bidge, Tennessee.

The petition alleged that deceased suffered a heart attack resulting from strain, effort and exertion in the work he was doing for the defendant in error, hereinafter called the Company. The answer denied that the death resulted from an accident growing out of and in the…