Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. v. Bridges

The court did not err in affirming the award granting compensation. The board was authorized to find from the evidence that the employee’s death resulted from a diseased heart condition accentuated by physical exercise a short time before his death. The evidence was sufficient to meet the test of moral and reasonable certainty. The circumstances surrounding the death authorized á finding that the death of the employee occurred in less than five minutes from the time he got into the jeep. The fact of a sudden death authorized the finding that it was due to heart disease, in the absence of any…