Mellon v. Ashland Coca Cola Bottling Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Latimer

Affirming.

We are here again confronted with the question as to whether, under the statutory provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, KBS 342.001 et seq., a heat prostration, or heat stroke, is in the nature of a traumatic injury and compensable, or is a disease and noncompensable.

The appellant, Donald G-. Mellon, a young man about 32 years of age, while performing his duties as an employee of the Ashland Coca Cola Bottling Company, suffered a heat stroke or prostration, on August Í, 1942. His duties seem to have been the delivery of cases of coca cola…