Tipton v. Jansson

McQUADE, Justice.

This is an appeal from an Industrial Accident Board order denying a claim for workmen’s compensation for the death of appellant’s husband.

Death was caused by a rupture of an aneurysm on an artery in the brain. The rupture apparently happened during decedent’s working hours.

The Board found appellant did not prove an industrial accident had caused the rupture. To the contrary, the Board determined, the evidence shows “almost a medical certainty and in any event a medical probability” that a “congenital abnormality,” weakening of the artery, made the rupture “inevitable…