Clemens v. Cornish

Per Curiam,

The record before us, which contains evidence that claimant had a heat stroke during the course of her employment with defendant, includes expert medical testimony that she was paralyzed as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage due to heat stroke, and the experts in question could find nothing else in her condition or history to account for the paralysis.

Disability by heat or sunstroke is accounted accidental under the Workmen’s Compensation Law: Lane v. Horn & Hardart Baking Co., 261 Pa. 329; Matis v. Schaeffer, 270 Pa. 141.

Acting under the authority of sections 420 and 422 of the…