Shelby Mutual Casualty Co. v. Huff

(After stating the foregoing facts.) In a workmen’s compensation proceeding the burden is upon the claimant to establish by evidence that the employee has sustained an accidental injury such as is contemplated by the act. American Mutual Liability Co. v. Harden, 64 Ga. App. 593 (13 S. E. 2d, 685). “It must result from this that a finding of fact made by the commission can not be based on mere conjecture any more than can a finding of fact made by a court.” Lathem v. Hart ford Accident & Indemnity Co., 60 Ga. App. 523, 527 (3 S. E. 2d, 916).

Where it is shown that the cause of death is cerebral…