Yocom v. Stone

WILHOIT, Judge.

This is an appeal by the Special Fund from an order of the Jefferson Circuit Court affirming an award by the Workmen’s Compensation Board to the appellee Maralyn Estelle Stone to be paid ten percent by her deceased husband’s employer and ninety percent by the Special Fund.

Mrs. Stone’s husband suffered a work-related fatal heart attack on January 5, 1976. Mr. Stone, who had arteriosclerotic heart disease, had undergone a previous heart attack in 1970 and one in 1974. The Board found that after each of these two attacks he had been able to return to work and to work without…