Riley v. Carnegie Steel Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

This is a workmen’s compensation case. On the morning of May 3, 1920, plaintiff’s husband, Harry C. Riley, while at work for defendant as a clerk, complained of pain in his left chest and about three hours later coughed up blood, but continued at his work until evening. On returning home, Riley made light of his wife’s suggestion that he looked ill; but after supper he called on the *84family doctor to whom he related his symptoms and also stated that while lifting an adding machine (weighing from forty to fifty pounds) that morning at his work he felt something…