Hamer v. Rishel

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

The employer in this workmen’s compensation case, Ashley Rishel, was the father of the deceased employee, Walter Rishel, who died on. June 22,1936, from “rheumatic heart disease.” Decedent and two brothers were employed by their father as carpenters. His widow, Kathryn Rishel, claimed compensation for herself, and two young children, upon the theory that during the course of her husband’s employment on March 10, 1936, his preexisting heart disease was so aggravated by the “exertion” put forth by him in carrying certain wooden doors from one part of a building to…