City & County of San Francisco v. Industrial Accident Commission

WOOD (Fred B.), J.

The main question upon this review of a decision of the Industrial Accident Commission which awarded benefits to the widow of a member of petitioner’s fire department, involves the applicability of the disputable presumption that in the case of a member of such a department “heart trouble which develops or manifests itself during the period while such member is in the service of” such department “shall be presumed to arise out of and in the course of the employment. This presumption is disputable and may be controverted by other evidence, but unless so controverted, the…