MATTER OF INJURY TO TAYLOR

No. 85-284.

718 P.2d 63 (1986)

In the Matter of the Injury to Larry L. TAYLOR, An Employee of Big Horn Coal Company. BIG HORN COAL COMPANY, Appellant (Employer), The State of Wyoming, ex rel. Wyoming Worker's Compensation Division, Appellant (Objector/Defendant), v. Larry L. TAYLOR, Appellee (Employee/Claimant).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

April 29, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rex O. Arney, Sheridan, for appellant Big Horn Coal Company.

A.G. McClintock, Atty. Gen., John W. Renneisen, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Terry J. Harris and Patrick J. Crank, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellant State of Wyoming.

Hardy H. Tate, Sheridan, for appellee.

Before THOMAS, C.J., and BROWN, CARDINE, URBIGKIT and MACY, JJ.


MACY, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the district court awarding benefits to Larry L. Taylor, appellee, under the Wyoming Worker's Compensation Act. We must decide whether there was sufficient competent medical testimony before the district court to find a direct causal connection between appellee's work activities and his cardiac condition.

We reverse.

Appellee was employed by Big Horn Coal Company as an earth-moving equipment operator...

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