Armstrong Tire & Rubber Co. v. Payton

SMITH, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Adams County affirming an order of a majority of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission declining to apportion an award of death benefits. -

This is the second appearance of this case here, the opinion of the Court on the former appeal appearing in 250 Miss. 407, 165 So.2d 336 (1964).

At the original hearing, it was stipulated' that the issue was whether there was a-causal connection between decedent’s death, and his employment. There was no dispute-that the immediate cause of death was the rupture of a preexisting aortic…