Bridges v. CHARLESTON HOUSING AUTHORITY

Littlejohn, Justice:

This is a Workmen’s Compensation claim brought by the family of the deceased claimant-employee, Harry G. Bridges. The hearing Industrial Commissioner, the Full Commission and the Circuit Court have approved an award in compensation for his death. The employer and insurance carrier have appealed.

Bridges had a history of having been hospitalized for a period of three weeks in 1966, for a condition diagnosed as psychoneurosis, with anxiety reaction and depression, severe, with paranoid ideas — also described as a nervous breakdown. He was, from 1966 until 1975, employed on an…