Case Name: MARIE MURPHY v. ST. PAUL GOODWILL INDUSTRIES AND ANOTHER
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Decision Date: 1969-06-06
Citations: 283 Minn. 496
Docket Number: No. 41522
Parties: MARIE MURPHY v. ST. PAUL GOODWILL INDUSTRIES AND ANOTHER.
Judges: Heard before Knutson, C. J., and Murphy, Rogosheske, Sheran, and Peterson, JJ.
Reporter: Minnesota Reports
Volume: 283
Pages: 496–496

Head Matter:
MARIE MURPHY v. ST. PAUL GOODWILL INDUSTRIES AND ANOTHER.
168 N. W. (2d) 505.
June 6, 1969
No. 41522.
Michael J. Baglio and Ronald O. W. Ylitalo, for relators.
Daniel B. Gallagher, for respondent.
Heard before Knutson, C. J., and Murphy, Rogosheske, Sheran, and Peterson, JJ.

Opinion:
Peterson, Justice.
Certiorari to review a decision of the Workmen's Compensation Commission awarding benefits to the widow and minor dependent children of decedent employee, who died as a result of heart failure while on the job as a driver's helper for relator employer. The commission found from the factual circumstances surrounding decedent's employment at that time and the medical opinion of a cardiologist testifying on behalf of respondent that, notwithstanding his preexisting acute coronary sclerosis, "the employee's work exertion was a precipitating cause of his heart failure." Because we cannot hold that this determinative finding of causal relationship is without evidentiary support, even though equally qualified medical specialists testified on behalf of relators to a different opinion, we affirm. Dudovitz v. Shoppers City, Inc. 282 Minn. 322, 164 N. W. (2d) 873.
Affirmed.