Ratliff v. Cubbage

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The sole question is whether or not the Workman’s Compensation Board had any evidence upon which to base its finding that the death of Dick Ratliff from a heart attack was not the result of an industrial accident. The circuit court affirmed the finding, expressing the view, however, that as an original determination the court would have found otherwise.

The employee was seriously injured in the mine of the appellees, Caudill-Ward Coal Co., by a run-away train of cars on August 26, 1946, twenty-two months before his sudden death on a street of Elk-horn City on July 2,…