Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company v. Olson

OPINION

WARD, Justice.

This is a workman’s compensation case. The trial before a jury resulted in a judgment awarding appellee benefits for total and permanent disability. This is a heart attack case. Mental stimulus was the cause of the attack, and excessive physical strain is not involved.

The claimant, Roger Olson, was forty-six years of age at the time of the heart attack and had been in good health all of his working life, which was as a general oil field laborer. In 1961 he started working in the more technical position of a well logger. That job ordinarily requires that the logger catch,…