Hoerner Waldorf Corp. v. Alford

J. Fred Jones, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case and the question on appeal is whether there is any substantial evidence to sustain the Commission’s finding that the claimant-appellee’s heart attack and resulting disability grew out of, and occurred within the course of, his employment as a truck driver.

Carl Lee Alford was 58 years of age when on September 13, 1971, he suffered a severe heart attack while driving a truck-trailer rig on a return trip to Little Rock from Rossville, Tennessee, where he had delivered a truckload of corrugated paper boxes bound up in 500 pound bales.…