Gray v. J. P. (Bum) Gibbins, Inc.

COMPTON, Justice.

The employer and its insurance carrier appeal from a judgment awarding workmen’s compensation benefits.

The employer is engaged in well servicing and on November 30, 1962, the appellee, while working as its operator’s helper in starting a motor by cranking a large heavy wheel requiring extraordinary and unusual exertion, suffered a heart attack. The trial court'specifically found that appellee’s “disability was the natural and direct result of the accident above mentioned,” and that as a direct result of the accident appellee was permanently and totally disabled.

The principal…