Highway Patrol v. Neal's Dependents

*511Ethridge, J.

The Workmen’s Compensation Commission awarded death benefits under the Act to appellees, dependents of Claude C. Neal, deceased. Neal was a highway patrolman, working in the drivers ’ license division, examining applicants for such licenses in several counties. He had a long-standing, severe care of hypertension, and died during working hours from a cerebral hemorrage. The overwhelming weight of the evidence reflects that the activities and duties of his employment aggravated, accelerated, or combined with his pre-exist-ing disease to produce his death. Five doctors who had seen…