State Ex Rel. Fisher Body St. Louis Co. v. Shain

Relator seeks to have quashed the opinion of a Court of Appeals in Fitzgerald v. Fisher Body St. Louis Company et al., 130 S. W. (2d) 975. The material facts follow:

Action under the Workmen’s Compensation Law. John C. Fitzgerald was a carpenter and as such became an employee of the Fisher Body St. Louis Company in January, 1929. At that time he was in good health and weighed one hundred seventy-five to one hundred eighty-five pounds. He so continued until the latter part of 1933, at which time he began to decline in health. He gradually grew worse, lost weight and collapsed while at work on…