Murphy v. St. Paul Goodwill Industries

Peterson, Justice.

Certiorari to review a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission awarding benefits to the widow and minor dependent children of decedent employee, who died as a result of heart failure while on the job as a driver’s helper for relator employer. The commission found from the factual circumstances surrounding decedent’s employment at that time and the medical opinion of a cardiologist testifying on behalf of respondent that, notwithstanding his preexisting acute coronary sclerosis, “the employee’s work exertion was a precipitating cause of his heart failure.” Because…