Cox v. Employers Mutual Liability Insurance

Deen, Judge.

As to workmen’s compensation cases involving disability following a heart attack while in the course of employment, "it must be shown by evidence, opinion or otherwise, that the exertion attendant upon the duties of employment, no matter how slight or how strenuous, and no matter with what other factors — such as pre-existing disease or predisposition to attack — it may be combined, was sufficient to contribute toward the precipitation of the attack . . . The opinions of experts that the exertion shown by the evidence to exist would be sufficient is also sufficient to authorize a…