McWilliams v. Industrial Commission

ELLETT, Justice.

Plaintiffs’ decedent, while in the course of his employment, fell and sustained a basal skull fracture. He claimed the fall was occasioned by his being overcome by lacquer fumes. The defendants allowed and paid compensation insurance until his death. Some seven months after his fall the decedent developed an irregularity in his heart beat and had a pacemaker surgically implanted in his body. He was released from the hospital and died the next day.

The plaintiffs, the widow and children of the decedent, filed an application for death benefits and brought the matter before this…