Travelers Insurance Company v. Walston

DUNAGAN, Chief Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation suit. This suit was brought by Mrs. Margie Lee Walston in her own right and as next friend for her minor children to recover compensation benefits for the death of her husband, Henry G. Walston, who died from a coronary occlusion allegedly precipitated or caused by strain or exertion claimed to have been incurred on June 9, 1965, during the course and scope of his employment with Knox Glass Company, Inc.

The case was tried to a jury which returned a verdict wherein it generally found that the insured sustained a compensable, accidental…