JUDGMENT :

Venkatadri, J.—This is an appeal preferred by the Madras State Electricity Board against the order dated 25 July 1962, of the Additional Commissioner for Workmen's Compensation, Madras, awarding compensation in a sum of Rs. 3,500 to the respondent, whose son met with an accident on 16 December 1959, in the dam construction in Niligris district, under the appellant, when he was working in the job of loading and unloading. He was taken to the hospital where he died on 18 December 1959, as a result of the accident.

2. The report of the supervisor was that the deceased died of sickness, in the ordinary course, while he was in-patient in the hospital and did not meet with an accident while he was on duty. The report of the medical officer of the hospital where the deceased was admitted and treated was also filed in the case. The doctor stated that the deceased was complaining of chest pain and giddiness. He found some tenderness over the substernal area of the chest and lung signs in the form of rales and rhonchi. Clinically, his heart was found to be enlarged. When he enquired the deceased about the pains, the deceased told him that he had occasional attacks of substernal pain