Claim of Dugan v. Muller Dairies, Inc.

Claimant had been employed for approximately sixteen years as a wholesale route man making deliveries of cases of milk to retail stores. On April 16, 1951, while engaged in unloading sixty-pound cases of milk, claimant suffered a cerebro-vascular hemorrhage with a left-sided hemiplegia. Claimant had been suffering from a pre-existing hypertension vascular disease. All of the medical testimony in the case indicates that the disability resulting from the accident of April 16, 1951, was substantially greater because of the pre-existing disease. While the board in its findings has found that…