Board of Education v. Industrial Commission

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County which affirmed a decision of the Industrial Commission awarding compensation for temporary total disability and medical expenses under the provisions of section. 19(b) of the Workmen’s Compensation Act to the claimant, Frank Coffey, for the heart attack he sustained on January 27, 1966. '

The claimant, Frank Coffey, had been an employee of the Board of Education of the City of Chicago since April 2, 1964, as a civil service janitor. His work consisted of dusting halls, corridors and classrooms with a dustmop, emptying waste…