Nystrom v. Industrial Commission

As to the proximate cause of death the medical testimony is diverse. It is contended by the appellant that the injury to the knee and consequent hospitalization of the patient, requiring his lying continuously on his back, weakened his system so as to make him subject to pneumococcus infection more easily and lessened his ability to throw off the disease when it occurred; hence, the accident may be said to be the proximate cause of death. On the other hand, the defendant’s medical testimony was to the effect that lobar pneumonia could not and did not result proximately from the accident. We…