Walton County Board of Commissioners v. Williams

Deen, Presiding Judge.

The appellee, Robert G. Williams, was employed as a deputy sheriff of Walton County, and in June 1981, while handling bloodhounds during a manhunt, he suffered an attack of heat exhaustion for which he was hospitalized two days. He returned to work immediately thereafter and continued working until October 18, 1981, when he resigned upon the advice of his physician.

The appellee then applied for workers’ compensation benefits and eventually was awarded such by the administrative law judge and *780the full board, on the basis that his work-related heat stroke gradually so…