Martin v. Cudahy Foods Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Holmes, J.:

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which we granted review of the unpublished decision of the Court of Appeals filed December 3, 1981. Cudahy Foods Company, a self-insurer, appealed to the Court of Appeals from a decision of the district court awarding W. D. Martin compensation based upon an occupational disease which developed while Martin was employed by Cudahy. The Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the district court and ordered the case remanded for the entry of an award based upon accidental injury rather than on an…