Asphalt Materials Co. v. Coleman

Lyle Browk, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. Appellee1, Hugo E. Coleman, claims temporary total disability as the result of a heart attack on July 12, 1966. His claim was denied by the commission, and that finding was reversed by the trial court. The only issue on appeal is whether there was any substantial evidence of a causal connection between the claimant’s work and the heart attack.

For some nine years Coleman, 48 years of age, had been employed by appellant. The company was in the business of asphalting streets, driveways, and parking facilities. In that operation an…