City of Boca Raton v. Sellers

THOMAS, Justice.

The claimant was a 41-year old police officer who suffered a thrombosis of the right internal carotid artery late in the evening of a day during which he had participated to some degree in a search for a prisoner who had escaped from a road gang. The day was spent in normal routine until four in the afternoon when he was instructed to organize a search for the prisoner in an area approximately a half-mile wide and four and a half miles long covered with a thick undergrowth of palmetto, sea grapes and vines from three to six feet in height.

The salient facts have been gathered…