Johnson v. Amalgamated Sugar Co.

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Earlier this year in Homer v. Ponderosa Pine Logging, 107 Idaho 1111, 695 P.2d 1250 (1985), another myocardial infarction case, although I concurred in the Court’s opinion which upheld an Industrial Commission decision, I wrote separately to suggest considerable difficulty in rationalizing the different result of that case as compared to Johnson — this case, which was at that time pending before us on a petition for rehearing — which was subsequently granted.

Today’s opinion for the Court now reverses the Industrial Commission, and in doing so withdraws our earlier opinion which upheld the…