Wallace v. Insurance Co. of North America

GLADNEY, Judge.

Plaintiff seeks to recover workmen’s compensation on behalf of herself and minor children by reason of the death of her husband on January 28, 1961. Mr. Wallace died as a result of a heart condition during the course of his employment with Yuba Consolidated Industries, Inc. Judgment was rendered denying plaintiff relief, hence this appeal. The issue herein presented is whether occupational activity had a causal relation in a medical sense to the death of the deceased. The trial court concluded that such a relationship between the deceased’s job activity and the fatal heart…