State Ex Rel. Wyoming Worker's Compenstion Division v. Van Buskirk

URBIGKIT, Justice.

This is a police officer/heart attack/worker’s compensation case, with trial-court granted benefits, and State division appeal. We affirm.

Ernie Van Buskirk, age 47, a one-man police department in the rural town of Kay-cee, Wyoming, suffered a heart attack from activities in connection with a house fire, for which he filed a Worker’s Compensation claim. The Wyoming Worker’s Compensation Division objected, the district court approved, and the division appealed to this court from the benefit grant.

As a one-man police department, Van Buskirk had an on-call schedule of seven days…