Swider v. Pillsbury Mills, Inc.

Loring, Chief Justice.

Certiorari to the industrial commission to review a decision denying compensation to relator. The facts are as follows:

Belabor was employed by respondent Pillsbury Mills, Inc., for 29 years prior to August 1947. In 1936, he became ill and was incapacitated for some time. In 1944 he became ill again, and, at the company doctor’s suggestion, went to the Mayo Clinic, where his condition was diagnosed as emphysema. This is a disease of the lungs in which the terminal air cells are distended and their partition walls ruptured by an abnormal pressure of air in them. On his…