Long v. Industrial Commission

This is an appeal from a judgment upon a verdict rendered at a second trial, finding the plaintiff, widow of a deceased employee, entitled to participate in the Workmen’s Compensation Fund. The first jury was unable to agree and was discharged.

Fred C. Long, a man 67 years old, had been employed as a stationary fireman by The Stearns & Foster Company for nine years preceding his death on March 18, 1953. As early as 1940 he had been hospitalized for a chronic ulcer condition, but the examination at that time did not disclose any other ailment. He was hospitalized again in 1951 for the same…