Industrial Commission v. Brumm

By the Court.

While the medical testimony tendered by the commission tended to prove that the cause of death was in no way related to the exposure and that the ventilating system was in proper order, we shall treat this case in light of the proof adduced by the claimant.

This court has held that diseases contracted in the course of employment, but which were not occasioned by or the result of a physical injury, are not compensable under our Workmen’s Compensation Law. Such was the holding of the syllabus in Renkel v. Industrial Commission, 109 Ohio St., 152, 141 N. E., 834, where claimant was…