Stubblefield v. Hot Mix Paving Co.

delivered- the opinion of the Court.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case brought under sec. 50-901 et seq., T.C.A. The employee appeals from the denial of a compensation award to him.

On the morning of June 28, 1962, the employee while performing his regular duties as President and General Manager of the Hot Mix Paving Company, Inc., and after loading some heavy equipment onto a lowboy and while loosening, with wrenches, a three-fourth inch copper tubing to stop an oil leakage on a grader, experienced a squeezing sensation in his chest, felt like he was smothering, became sick and started…