Yost v. Wyoming State Treasurer Ex Rel. Wyoming Worker's Compensation Division

ROSE, Chief Justice.

The issue in this case asks whether the fatal heart attack suffered by worker Gale Allen Yost is compensable under the Wyoming Worker’s Compensation Act, §§ 27-12-101 through 27-12-805, W.S.1977. We will hold that it was, thereby reversing the trial court.

FACTS

Gale Allen Yost was a truck driver who, during the period of time that he was employed by S & S Trucking, Inc., suffered a serious, nonfatal heart attack. The precise time or place of this first attack is not known, but the medical testimony was that it occurred two days to two weeks prior to death.

Subsequently, on…