Nash v. Trust Company of Georgia

Bell, Chief Judge.

The claimant’s theory of recovery of workmen’s compensation was that a pre-existing diseased condition, thrombophlebitis, was aggravated by her employment. It is settled that the aggravation of pre-existing infirmity is compensable. Aetna Casualty &c. Co. v. Cagle, 106 Ga. App. 440 (126 SE2d 907). The findings of fact were ". . . claimant did not suffer an accident and injury which arose out of and in the course of her employment. There is no evidence of an accident; that claimant was walking and felt a sting in her leg, and she developed a flare-up of a pre-existing…