Legal Opinion
Granholm v. Cardillo
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided December 9, 1940No. 7483Published
1Opinion of the Court
VINSON, Associate Justice.
The appellant filed claim for compensation with the appellee, Deputy Commissioner, for injury to his heart alleged to have been sustained while, in the performance of his duties as baggage-checker for appellee Company, he was assisting three or four other men in loading a box containing a casket and corpse weighing about 500 pounds upon a motor truck.
The Deputy Commissioner found as a fact that “the lifting of the corpse did not precipitate the attack of coronary thrombosis; that claimant’s heart condition was not caused or aggravated by his work [the lifting of the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Crowell v. BensonSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Voehl v. Indemnity Insurance Co. of North AmericaSupreme Court of the United States · 1933
- Maryland Casualty Co. v. CardilloCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1939