Jones v. Industrial Commission

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Day.

The question presented by this writ of error is whether a seventy year old carpenter, of more than forty-seven years experience in his trade, who suffered a prior heart attack from which he had not fully recovered and who was shown to have died from coronary occlusion due to coronary sclerosis and to arteriosclerosis, can be said to have suffered an accidental death proximately caused by his employment.

The Industrial Commission, in its findings, stated:

“No evidence is presented that decedent was performing other than the ordinary work of his trade. Indeed, the work…