Lewis v. Industrial Commission

"Mr. Justice Ward

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Madison County upholding the Industrial Commission’s denial of the petitioner’s claim for compensation under the Workman’s Occupational Diseases Act. The petitioner, Viola Lewis, urges that compensation should have been awarded, maintaining that the evidence she presented established a direct causal connection between the conditions of her deceased husband’s employment and his contraction of the disabling disease of emphysema from which he allegedly died.

The petitioner’s husband,…