Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. v. Dependents of Harris

ROBERTSON, Justice:

The widow, Mrs. Lona Boone Harris, and minor son, Audley Bedford Harris, Jr., of decedent, Audley Bedford Harris, filed a claim on August 29, 1964, against Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation and American Mutual Liability Insurance Company seeking compensation for death benefits under the Mississippi Workmen’s Compensation Act.

The decedent died on March 23, 1963, of an “acute myocardial infarct,” according to the certificate of death. The claim was predicated on alleged heart attacks suffered in 1958 and in 1960 by the decedent while he was in the employ of Ingalls…