Court Opinion

ID: 9660678
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 22:18:23.769333+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:21.261172
License: Public Domain

RUDOLPPI, J.
(concurring). It is my opinion that the facts in this case fall squarely within the holding in Johnson v. Concrete Materials Co., 70 S.D. 95. 15 N.W.2d 4. Mr. Cooper became ill on the Vinatieri job. but the evidence discloses that the diseased condition of circulatory system and heart was of long standing. The injury he suffered on* this job came on by gradual growth and was not the result of some particular piece of work done. It was the cumulative effect of many acts done over a long period of time, no one of which can be identified as the cause of the harm, at least the commissioner was justified in so finding. No element of suddenness or precipitancy is disclosed by the evidence, nor is the jury assignable to a definite circumstance.