Industrial Commission v. Bowshier

ALLREAD, PJ.

It is claimed in the petition in error

in this court that the record does not disclose a scintilla of legal evidence to establish a causal connection between the alleged injury and the cause of death. Upon this assignment of error counsel for the plaintiff in error makes his principal argument. He claims first that there is no competent evidence that the slipping of the deceased in pulling the load of meat was an accidental injury which caused the hernia. Under the statute (§1465-91) a more liberal and less technical rule is provided for evidence. This governs the trial on appeal.…