ABBOTT v. DEPT. OF LABOR & IND.

No. 33628.

49 Wn.2d 774 (1957)

307 P.2d 254

DELORIS A. ABBOTT, Appellant, v. THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES, Respondent.

The Supreme Court of Washington, Department Two.

February 7, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brodie & Fristoe, for appellant.

The Attorney General and Bernard A. Johnson, Assistant, for respondent.


HILL, C.J.

This is a heart case. The question presented is the familiar one of the sufficiency of the evidence to take the case to the jury on the issue of whether the coronary occlusion which resulted in the death of a workman was caused by an injury sustained in the course of his employment while under the workmen's compensation act.

The deceased workman, Harold M. Abbott, was a faller and bucker. While working...

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