Nashville Livestock Commission v. Cox

I agree with the majority and write only to renew my concurring view in Black v. Riverside Furniture Co., 6 Ark. App. 370, 375, 642 S.W.2d 338, 341 (1982) (Glaze, J., concurring). Black involved a non-work related death case, not a disabling angina case. If the evidence in Black had shown Black’s angina pains had hastened his death, I believe the court would have held the claim compensable. Nonetheless, the medical evidence in Black was lacking in this respect, and the widow’s claim was properly denied.

Here, appellant also relies upon Kempner’s v. Hall, 7 Ark. App. 181, 646 S.W.2d 31 (1983),…