Transportation Insurance Co. v. Maksyn

KLINGEMAN, Justice.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case. Transportation Insurance Company, appellant here and plaintiff below, filed this suit to set aside an award granted to Joe J. Maksyn, defendant below and appellee here, by the Industrial Accident Board. Defendant filed an answer and counterclaim seeking to recover workmen’s compensation benefits from the plaintiff on the basis of an occupational disease sustained in the course of his employment. Defendant claimed to have suffered an anxiety depression caused by the pressures of his employment which culminated on September 4, 1974, and…