Claim of Julian v. City of Lackawanna

Medical testimony was requisite to establish a causal relation between the injuries suffered by decedent in the accident which befell him in the course of his employment on December 12, 1939, and his death from heart disease on July 4, 1940. Such as was presented was in sharp conflict. The finding of causal relation which has been made is supported by competent evidence and although of an opinion nature grounded upon due hypothesis, we may not say it is so unsubstantial as to fail in the legal requirements of that support. At death decedent was about thirty-six years old. He had been…