Todd v. Goostree

SHANGLER, Chief Judge.

In this workmen’s compensation case, the claimant employee suffered great emotional shock when he discovered beneath the wheels of his truck the crushed and lifeless body of his friend and fellow worker. As a result of that gruesome experience, the claimant suffered a severe and chronic traumatic neurosis, conceded by the Industrial Commission to be a “very real” disability. The Industrial Commission by a divided decision, nonetheless, entered an award denying compensation on the ground that the claimant’s mental and emotionally induced disability was not a compensable…