Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Corn

The appeal to the full Board of Workmen’s Compensation being a de novo investigation, the only question for this court to decide is whether there is any evidence to support the award. It has long been established that regardless of what factors of pre-existing injury or disease enter into the case, if the exertion which the employee undertook was too great for him in his then existing condition of health so that it contributed to the attack from which he died, the death is compensable. Lumbermen’s Mutual Casualty Co. v. Griggs, 190 Ga. 277 (9 S. E. 2d 84); Thompson-Weinman Co. v. Yancey, 90…