Adams's Case

Decree affirmed. Adams, fifty years old, in good health, and with no record of heart trouble, on Saturday morning, June 9, 1956, while working for his insured employer, was struck by a heavy wooden beam. He suffered “a long oblique fracture [of the foot] involving the entire shaft of the first metatarsal which caused discoloration . . . and swelling.” Early the following Monday, the condition having grown worse, he was sent to a hospital for X-rays. A doctor sent him home. That night he became ill and complained of pains in his chest. “[E]orly Tuesday . . . [he] was removed to the hospital…