Tingle v. Board of County Commissioners

ROBERTS, Justice.

The claimant seeks a writ of certiorari to have reviewed an order of the Florida Industrial Commission affirming an order of the deputy commissioner which denied compensation benefits for an industrially related heart attack.

On Saturday, June 1, 1963, while at work, the employee-decedent experienced a sudden sharp pain in his chest when he slipped and fell in attempting to turn a large valve in an air-conditioning system Pain persisted for about an hour and then subsided. He worked the remainder of the day, the next day, and on the third day after two hours of his usual heavy…