Wilkes v. Oscar's Transfer & Storage

ROBERTS, Justice.

Claimant is a white male laborer in his early forties who was employed to drive a truck and to pack and stack furniture and equipment for a transfer company. He testified that while at work on June 3, 1960 he suffered a sharp pain in his chest after carrying materials weighing fifty-seventy-five pounds up four flights of stairs. He testified that thereafter and until August 30, 1960 he occasionally experienced sharp pains while at work but felt relief after resting. On August 30, 1960, when working on a very hot day, he became ill and asked to go home. He contacted a doctor’s…