Holly v. Spartan Grain & Mill Co.

FishburnB, AJ.:

This appeal involves a maximum award of $6,000.00 made by the Industrial Commission and affirmed by the circuit court in favor of Roland Holly, the only child and heir-at-law of Roscoe Holly.

Roscoe Holly, an employee of Spartan Grain & Mill Company, located in or near Newberry, died of uremic poisoning or Bright’s Disease in the Spartanburg General Hospital at Spartanburg on May 1, 1945. His son, the claimant, sought compensation on the ground that although the primary cause of his death was a pre-existing disease, yet this disease was aggravated and accelerated by an…