Coombe v. Penegor

Plaintiff, suffered a stroke occasioned by a brain hemorrhage while seeking to chain a load of logs in place on his truck.

After hearing the incident and the effort concerned therewith related, plaintiff’s medical witness testified concerning “such physical exertion,” “It is my opinion that it can produce this hemorrhage.”' The workmen’s compensation appeal board found that his injury arose out of and during the course of his employment, and there is ample evidence from which such a finding could be made.

Plaintiff filed claim for compensation alleging disability, alternatively based on…