American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. v. Gerth

PALMORE, Judge.

Joseph Gerth worked for the appellant company from 1921 until the day of his death, October 15, 1959. He died while at work. The immediate cause of death was a coronary occlusion, and the evidence is amply sufficient to support the conclusion that his coronary ailment was an outgrowth of and resulted from the occupational disease of silicosis arising out of and in the course of fiis employment. The existence of his silicotic condition had been known both to him and the employer for many years prior to his death. For a continuous period of well over three years immediately…