Fox v. Industrial Commission

The principal question to be determined in both cases is: Where, in a hearing on a workmen’s compensation claim, a hypothetical question is propounded to a medical witness for the purpose of establishing causal connection between an accidental *573injury and succeeding harm or disability, may such question inquire as to “a causal relationship” or must it inquire as to “a direct or proximate causal relationship ” ?

As a preliminary, it is appropriate to set forth briefly the basis upon which compensation to injured employees is determined and allowed. Prior to the 1937 amendment of Section 1465-68,…