MATTER OF PUKALUK v. INS. CO. OF NORTH AM.


7 A.D.2d 676 (1958)

In the Matter of the Claim of Maria Pukaluk, Respondent, v. Insurance Company of North America et al., Appellants. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

November 10, 1958


This is a case of fright causing a heart attack, or at least the board could so find. The employer owned an office building and claimant was employed therein as an office cleaning woman. Some one or two months prior to the date of the alleged accident a man prowler had been seen about the employer's premises. As a result the claimant and other cleaning women in the building were ordered to keep the doors in the office locked when they were working therein. In compliance with...

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