Monical v. Armour and Company

VAN OSDOL, Commissioner.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case. Defendant employer and self-insurer Armour and Company has appealed from a judgment of the Circuit Court affirming a $12,426 award of the Industrial Commission for medical aid and burial expense, and for death benefits to the three dependent minor children of deceased employee, Robert Monical.

In this case the underlying factual questions are whether employee sustained an “accident”- — a blow on the head on April 16, 1956 — with ensuing hemorrhage and deterioration of the cells of the brain; and, if so, whether such ensuing…