Pearson v. Wallace

Both parties agree that the only issue with respect to liability is whether the injury from which Mr. Glidden died was an accidental one arising out of his employment. This resolves itself into the question of whether the blow that resulted in the contusion preceded and was a cause of the cerebral hemorrhage, or whether the latter was induced by natural causes within Walter I. Glidden, and the bump an incident of his loss of control over himself. If the second of these propositions is correct, any injury did not arise out of the employment by the defendant and is not compensable. Guay v.…