Scott v. Kentland-Elkhorn Coal Co.

WADDILL, Commissioner.

Mrs. Erma Scott and her infant children are appealing from a judgment affirming an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Board dismissing their applications for compensation as dependents of Fayette Scott. The dismissal of the claims was based upon the Board’s findings that Fay-ette Scott’s death was caused by “coronary occlusion which existed apart from and not caused by either the injury he sustained on December 7, 1956, nor the operation, nor the results of either, including the exercises performed by the decedent and the cast and brace that he wore after the…