Continental Insurance Company v. Marshall

OPINION

OSBORN, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which the Appellee, a widow, recovered death benefits. The jury found that Mrs. Marshall’s husband, John Thurston Marshall, had a heart attack on December 22, 1970, which occurred in the course of his employment by Atlantic Richfield Company and that the heart attack was a producing cause of his death. The jury also found that the heart attack was not caused solely by preexisting heart disease. We affirm the judgment of the trial Court.

Mr. Marshall, who was fifty-nine years old at his death, had worked for Atlantic Richfield…