Branch v. Pacific Mills

This is an appeal from an order of the Circut Court affirming an award to the respondents by the South Carolina Industrial Commission of the maximum death benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, Act July 17, 1935, 39 St. at Earge, p. 1231, on account of the death of. Oscar E.- Branch, an employee of the appellant, Pacific Mills, who died on the morning of April 19, 1943, while on duty in the slasher room of Pacific Mills, as the result of a stroke or cerebral hemorrhage.

The exceptions raise the question that there is no testimony to sustain the conclusion that the death of the employee…