Insurance Company of North America v. Kneten

REAVLEY, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case involving the problem of proof of causal connection between a job connected occurrence and the employee’s disability. The occurrence here centers on an electric shock received by the employee, and his subsequent disability is due to a damaged heart.

On the strength of the testimony by the plaintiff and his treating doctor, the jury found that the injury received in the course of employment was a producing cause of total and permanent incapacity. The judgment entered on the verdict for plaintiff was upheld by the Court of Civil Appeals. 430…