Kafka v. Edwards

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, C. J.:

This is a workmen’s compensation case arising from the death of Martin W. Kafka, a cattle truck driver, whose death occurred' from coronary thrombosis or coronary occlusion on December 5, 1955, within a few minutes from the time he had loaded his truck with cattle, driven it some three hundred feet away from the loading chutes, left the truck, and then walked back, approximately one hundred fifty feet, toward such chute.

The proceeding was instituted by Flox'ence Kafka, hereinafter referred to as the claimant or appellant, as widow and…