City Council of Augusta v. Williams
Decision Date | 05 January 1976 |
Docket Number | No. 51376,No. 2,51376,2 |
Citation | 137 Ga.App. 177,223 S.E.2d 227 |
Parties | CITY COUNCIL OF AUGUSTA, Georgia v. Ceabron WILLIAMS |
Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
J. Samuel Choate, Jr., Augusta, for appellant.
Lanier, Powell, Cooper & Cooper, L. Valdi Cooper, Augusta, for appellee.
In this workmen's compensation case, the employer, City Council of Augusta, appeals from the judgment of the superior court affirming the full board's award which granted compensation to claimant, a City of Augusta policeman.
Claimant suffered an acute myocardial infarction shortly after he went on duty on January 22, 1973. The evidence shows that claimant was under severe emotional stress at the time of his injury because (1) he was fearful of losing his job, (2) his beat was too large for one man, (3) he was required to ride alone in his patrol car because the Augusta Police Department was understaffed, (4) only three days previously he had been transferred from the morning shift to the night shift, and (5) he had been required to attend court that morning. At the hearing, a physician testified that claimant's work-connected emotional stress might or could have contributed to his heart attack. Does this evidence support the board's award granting compensation? Our answer is in the affirmative.
1. Sears Roebuck & Co. v. Poole, 112 Ga.App. 527, 528, 145 S.E.2d 615, 617; Brown Transport Corp. v. Blanchard, 126 Ga.App. 333, 190 S.E.2d 625.
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