The issue presented is whether decedent, in falling on his back from a low stepladder, sustained any injury that contributed to his death eight days later. Some time after the unwitnessed fall, decedent was found in a condition of left hemiplegia. The board found accidental injuries, "and in particular [an] acute cerebral vascular accident", which, according to the findings, resulted in his death from "arteriosclerotic heart disease and general arteriosclerosis, especially...
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