TRANSCON LINES v. BROTHERTON

No. 42136.

438 P.2d 935 (1967)

TRANSCON LINES and Transport Indemnity Company, Petitioners, v. Virgil Earl BROTHERTON and State Industrial Court, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied April 2, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Fisher, Oklahoma City, for petitioners.

Harry R. Palmer, Jr., Schwoerke & Schwoerke, Oklahoma City, Charles R. Nesbitt, Atty. Gen., for respondents.


McINERNEY, Justice.

Under review here is the trial tribunal's decision by which employer was adjudged liable for claimant's permanent total disability to the body as a whole. The decisive question is whether under our Workmen's Compensation Act the employer may be liable for the cumulative effect produced by claimant's accidental knee injury and by his pre-existing non-compensable heart disease, when the latter condition...

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