JONES v. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

No. 19737.

365 P.2d 689 (1961)

Mabel E. JONES, Plaintiff in Error, v. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION of Colorado, O. K. Rubber Welders, Incorporated, a Colorado corporation, and State Compensation Insurance Fund, Defendants in Error.

Supreme Court of Colorado. In Department.

October 23, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George F. Barbary, Denver, for plaintiff in error.

Harold Clark Thompson, Louis Schiff, Alious Rockett, Fred B. Dudley, Denver, for defendant in error State Compensation Insurance Fund.

Charles A. Haskell, Ralph E. Crandell, Robert J. Flynn, Harvey B. Cochran, Denver, for defendant in error O. K. Rubber Welders, Inc.

Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., Frank E. Hickey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Peter L. Dye, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant in error Industrial Commission.


DAY, Justice.

The question presented by this writ of error is whether a seventy year old carpenter, of more than forty-seven years experience in his trade, who suffered a prior heart attack from which he had not fully recovered and who was shown to have died from coronary occlusion due to coronary sclerosis and to arteriosclerosis, can be said to have suffered an accidental death proximately caused by his employment.

The Industrial Commission, in its findings...

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