Lattin v. State Accident Insurance Fund

State Accident Insurance Fund appeals from a decree of the circuit court which awarded claimant permanent and total disability plus attorney fees on account of heart disease. Claimant, before his disability-forced cessation of work, was a state police officer. He is 56 years of age. His father, mother and brother all have had heart trouble. In 1968 he had a myocardial infarction which, evidence indicated, resulted in the complete occlusion of one heart artery. After several months of recovery he returned to work, but he has had continuing angina symptoms, one time severe enough to require…