Lepper v. Industrial Commission

This is a direct appeal by the claimant, Arthur Lepper, from a judgment of the circuit court of Adams County confirming a decision of the Industrial Commission which denied an award of compensation for an acute myocardial infarction. 58 Ill. 2d R. 302(a).

The only question to be decided is whether the decision of the Commission that the claimant’s heart attack was not an accidental injury arising out of and in the course of his employment under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 48, par. 138.1 et seq.) was contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence.

On February 5,…