INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY v. Whitfield

Clark, Judge.

In this workmen’s compensation case, the employer and carrier appealed directly to the superior court from the award of the deputy director. Upon affirmance of the award they brought this appeal.

The principal issue is whether the evidence supports the deputy director’s finding that claimant’s change of condition was the proximate result of an employment injury. Appellants contend claimant’s change of condition was the result of an intervening cause — an injury which claimant sustained while descending the steps at his home. But the deputy director concluded that "On March 22,…