Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp. v. Industrial Commission

Vernon W. Drain sustained a burn of his foot on February 24, 1951, in the course of his employment in the plant of the plaintiff in error at Pueblo, as a result of which his foot was very tender and swollen and required daily treatment and dressing, which was given by his employer’s physicians. He continued to work until March 4, when he went to see his own physician, who had him immediately sent to the hospital with a diagnosis of pneumonia. He died there on March 12 and ah autopsy disclosed the cause of death to have been a pulmonary embolus occluding both pulmonary arteries. The autopsy…