Chapman v. Wilkenson Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fatzer, C. J.:

This appeal is from a judgment denying compensation under the “heart amendment” of the Workmen’s Compensation Act. (K.S.A. 44-501.) The appellant is the widow of a deceased workman who sustained a fatal heart attack on the job on February 12, 1974.

The facts are not in dispute. The deceased workman, Clinton Harold Chapman, Sr., was a carpenter and millwright who for many years had worked out of a local carpenters union in Topeka. At the time of his death, he had been employed approximately two weeks by the appellee, Wilkenson Company, on a…