Fink v. Sheldon Axle & Spring Co.

Citations

• 270 Pa. 476
• 113 A. 666
• 1921 Pa. LEXIS 419

Syllabus

<p>Workmen’s compensation—Injury in course of employment— Connection between injury and disease—Paralysis — Evidence — Experts.</p> <p>1. When, in cases under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, expert testimony is relied on to show the connection between an alleged cause and a certain result, it is not enough for the doctors to say simply that the ailment in question might have resulted from the assigned cause, or that one could have brought about the other; they must go further and testify at least that, taking into consideration all the attending data, if'is their professional opinion the result in question probably came from the assigned cause.</p> <p>2. Where it is claimed that paralysis from which a workman suffered was due to a blow on the head received in the course of his employment, and the strongest expert testimony was that it could have been due to such a blow, the evidence is not sufficient to support a finding that the blow caused the paralysis.</p>