Modern Upholstered Chair Co. v. Henry

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case in which the employee recovered benefits for 75% permanent partial disability to the body as a whole, resulting from a heart attack alleged to have arisen out of and in the course of his employment by the defendant. Upon the overruling of its motion for a new trial, the employer has duly appealed to this Court and assigned errors.

The material facts are that the employee suffered a heart attack shortly before midnight on Sunday, September 23, 1962, after having retired at about 9:00 P.M., that evening. He had last worked for the employer the morning of…