Hammill v. Matthew Cummings Co.

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

Claimant’s husband, Charles H. Hammill, was an employee of the defendant, Matthew Cummings Company. He died on Saturday, Jnly 23, 1938, while lying on a sofa at his home, of a coronary thrombosis, which is, in the language of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, “the closure of the coronary artery of the heart, due to the pressure therein of a blood clot.”

The evidence produced showed that on July 13, 1938, the employee had been taken from his usual labor of wheeling bricks and tossing them up to the bricklayers, and, along with several other laborers, had been assigned to…