Avis Hotel v. Industrial Commission

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County reversing the decision of the Industrial Commission awarding compensation to the applicant, Mabel Hill, for the fatal heart attack sustained by her husband, Leroy Hill, on the basis that the award was against the manifest weight of the evidence.

The decedent, age 39, was employed as a houseman at the Avis Hotel. His normal course of duties, which had not varied substantially during his four years of employment, entailed bringing linen to the maids, carrying out trash, vacuuming the carpets in the hallways and on the stairs…