Gilliland v. Ash Grove Lime & Portland Cement Co.

Citations

• 104 Kan. 771
• 180 P. 793
• 1919 Kan. LEXIS 357

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS. BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Compensation Act¡ — Death from Pulmonwy Hemorrhage — Injury Arose Out of Employment — An “Accident.” A workman’s employment required him to break rock in a quarry with a 16-pound sledge and load the rock into a car, which was hard work. At noon he was in apparent good health and spirits, and ate all of the lunch which his wife brought to the quarry for him. In the afternoon, while at his working place, • and shortly after he was seen beating a large rock with his sledge, he suffered a pulmonary hemorrhage, from which he died before medical aid could reach him. He had been working in the quarry for several months, and before that had worked for three years in the sacking department of a eementj plant, an exceedingly dusty place. Held, the facts stated indicated injury by accident, and injury arising out of > the employment, within the meaning of the first section of the workmen’s compensation act.</p>