HASTINGS v. CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE FIRE DEPARTMENT

No. 33406.

178 So.2d 106 (1965)

Norman C. HASTINGS (Deceased) Ethel Hastings, Widow, Petitioner, v. CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE FIRE DEPARTMENT and Florida Industrial Commission, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied September 20, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Minnet, Allsworth, Doumar, Schuler & Elliott and James F. Minnet, Fort Lauderdale, for petitioner.

Charles Desmond Crowley, Fort Lauderdale, Patrick H. Mears, Tallahassee, and J. Franklin Garner, Lakeland, for respondents.


HOBSON, Justice (Ret.).

Norman C. Hastings was forty-five years of age when he died as a result of a heart attack. He was employed at the time by the Fire Department of the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His employment had been continuous for thirteen years, the past eleven years of said period of employment he served as an engineer-driver.

On the day Mr. Hastings suffered the fatal heart attack, he was engaged with others in a supervised large fire...

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