Burrell v. State Workmen's Insurance Fund

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

The appeal in this workmen’s compensation case is by the employer and its insurance carrier from a judgment entered by the court below upon an award of compensation to the claimant and her dependent daughter.

It is not questioned that Dominic Burrell, claimant’s husband, while in the course of his employment as a hoisting engineer with Inland Collieries Company, died suddenly about nine o’clock on the forenoon of January 11, 1935. The issue was whether his death resulted from the natural and normal progress of the chronic arteriosclerosis, accompanied by high blood…