Drake v. State Department of Social Welfare

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• “[T]he injury the deceased workman sustained was instrumental in part and was a contributing cause of his death.”
• decedent’s compensable back injury prevented him from coughing to clean his lungs — this contributed to his death immediately caused by a non-compensable lung condition and so injury was causally connected to death; compensation award affirmed
• decedent's compensable back injury prevented him from coughing to clean his lungs — this contributed to his death immediately caused by a non-compensable lung condition and so injury was causally connected to death; compensation award affirmed

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