CHAPMAN, DEPENDENTS OF v. HANSON SCALE CO.

No. 55965.

495 So.2d 1357 (1986)

Larry Ray CHAPMAN, Deceased, DEPENDENTS OF v. HANSON SCALE Company and Continental Casualty Company.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 15, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanford Young, David Slaughter, Waynesboro, for appellant.

J.R. Shannon, William B. Carter, Eppes, Watts & Shannon, Meridian, for appellee.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, P.J., and ROBERTSON and SULLIVAN, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This workers' compensation death benefits case arises out of a worker's idiopathic fall and fatal striking of his head on a concrete floor upon his employer's premises. The worker did not trip, he did not slip nor was he pushed — he just fell. Evidence suggests he may have fallen as a result of a grand mal seizure. The immediate cause of death, however, was the blow to the head.

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