Dial v. C. v. Dome Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Foth, C.:

This is a workmens compensation case in which we are called upon to determine what effect the 1967 ‘heart amendment” to the Kansas workmen’s compensation act has on a case of ‘heat stroke.”

The claimant in this case is a finish carpenter who was 58 years of age at the time he sustained his injury on June 25, 1971. He had no history o£ heart trouble, but it was later determined that he did have atherosclerosis.

In April he had begun working on the construction of a large, one-story building in Parsons, Kansas, intended for use as a retail…