McWaters v. Employers Liability Assurance Corp.

The only evidence of any probative value whatever offered by the claimant was a death certificate, which stated in effect that the employee’s death was caused by a cerebral hemorrhage due to a fall, and that he was found unconscious at the De Soto Hotel in Savannah (where he worked). Such a statement in a death certificate is rebuttable. Code, § 88-1212; O’Kelley v. State, 63 Ga. App. 609 (11 S. E. 2d, 718). There is ample evidence in the record authorizing the finding that the statement was successfully rebutted and that the claimant failed to show death by accident arising out of and in the…