Wever v. Farmhand, Inc.

Relator seeks review of a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board awarding benefits to respondent, widow of the de*43ceased employee.1 The only question before the court is whether the evidence sustains the board’s finding of a causal relationship between the employee’s fatal heart attack and his employment.

The employee, age 60, died on Sunday, December 7, 1969, approximately 10 or 11 hours after leaving work. He was employed as a welder on the afternoon shift. During the week preceding his death he worked 6 days. The first part of the week he assembled 10-pound rake wheels, assembling 28 on…