Turner v. Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

KERRIGAN, Acting P. J.

Elie Turner, while employed as a district superintendent for Southern California Edison Company, 1 experienced partial paralysis of the legs when working late one night. He managed to drive home, was hospitalized and died nine (9) days later. Death resulted from the rupture of an aneurysm of the anterior cerebral artery at the base of the brain (brain hemorrhage).

His widow filed an application for death benefits on behalf of herself and the dependent minor child of the parties. At the time of the hearing before the trial referee, the crucial issue was whether the…