Guye v. Home Indemnity Co.

Hill, Justice.

We granted certiorari in this workmen’s compensation case to consider whether, without medical evidence as to causation, any inference may be drawn as to the cause of a heart attack from the fact that an employee suddenly suffers such an attack while performing strenuous manual labor, and whether such inference, if any, satisfies the evidentiary standard set forth in the 1963 amendment to Code Ann. § 114-102 (Ga. L. 1963, pp. 141, 142). The Court of Appeals divided four, one, four on this issue. Home Indem. Co. v. Guye, 143 Ga. App. 494 (238 SE2d 549) (1977).

The undisputed…