LEA MACHINERY COMPANY v. EMMONS

No. 40932.

395 P.2d 857 (1964)

LEA MACHINERY COMPANY and the State Insurance Fund, Petitioners, v. Mary Katherine EMMONS and the State Industrial Court, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

October 6, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mont R. Powell, Guy A. Secor, Oklahoma City, for petitioners.

Jack B. English, Tulsa, Charles R. Nesbitt, Atty. Gen., Oklahoma City, for respondents.


DAVISON, Justice.

The evidence is undisputed that on May 4, 1963, Cecil Franklin Emmons, an employee of petitioner, Lea Machinery Company, suffered a coronary occlusion resulting in a myocardial infarction terminating in death on the same day.

On May 31, 1963, Mary Katherine Emmons, claimant, as surviving widow, filed a claim under the death benefit provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act with the State Industrial Court. Petitioner and its insurance carrier...

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