Bowers v. Schell's Bakery

Per Curiam,

The claimant in this workmen’s compensation case is admittedly totally disabled. The disability is due to a coronary occlusion. The main question before the compensation authorities was whether the coronary occlusion was brought about by the exertion of pushing a half-ton bread truck, half-filled with bread, in order to start it when the mechanical starter would not work, or was the natural result of a diseased condition of his heart and arteries. That was a pure question of fact, the decision of which rested on the final fact-finding body, the board. There was competent medical…